Category: River Exe Structures

Bridge Name: Nethercote Bridge – ROW Bridge 1985
No.: 14
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Concrete slab on rsj’s supported on stone pillars. Carries bridleway DU 10/11

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Bridge Name: West Nethercote Footbridge – ROW Bridge No. 1982
No.: 13
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Wooden footbridge with stone steps. Carries footpath DU 10/13

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Bridge Name: Lyncombe Bridge
No.: 12 
Location: SS 87620 36142
Build Date: C17-C18, possibly earlier
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Packhorse bridge. C17-C18, possibly earlier. Lias. Dry stone flat bedded rubble; single span, pointed arch; rubble voussoirs; curved abutments; parapet of undressed stone set on end, ramped up to centre. Hump backed bridge with remains of pebble pathway. A fine example of a single span, humpbacked Exmoor bridge, unusual in that it appears not to have been altered during the last two hundred years.1

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1.British Listed Buildings – Listing NGR: SS8672137487

Bridge Name: Southcot Footbridge
No.: 11
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Bridge Name: Southcot Bridge
No.: 10
Location: SS 87620 36142
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Accommodation bridge to Hantons Farm

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Bridge Name: North Court Bridge – ROW Bridge No. 3385
No.:9
Location: SS 85734 38036
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Concrete deck on rsj’s supported on concrete and stone piers. Carries ROW path No. DU 4/4

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Bridge Name: Exford Bridge
No.: 8
Location: Exford – SS 8525 3835
Build Date: Rebuilt 1930 on medieval site
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Road bridge over River Exe. Rebuilt 1930 on medieval site. Local stone random rubble facing T-beam, saddleback coping. Three arch span, semi-circular headed arches with 2 cutwater buttresses on each side.
English Heritage Listed Building Number: 265419. First Listed on 06/04/1959. 1
“There is a litle Tymbre Bridge at Exforde over Ex Brooke, ther being a smaul water”2

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1.Exmoor National Park HER – MSO10639
2.Second volume of Leyland’s Intinerary published by Hearne – see History of hundred of Carhampton, in the County of Somerset, from the best authorities by James Savage

Bridge Name: Edgcott ROW Bridge No. 3359
No.: 7
Location: SS 85253 38356
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Carries footpath DU 4/35

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Bridge Name: Edgcott Farm Footbridge
No.: 6
Location: SS 85253 38356
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Accommodation Bridge

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