Tytherleigh Bridge

The most important bridges in the ancient parish were those taking the Wellington road over the boundary stream at Three Bridges, so named by 1632,and the road to Staplegrove over the Tone, which was the adjoining miller’s responsibility in the 17th century and was described as a great bridge. Known as Tytherleigh bridge by the latter may have been the bridge ordered to be to be rebuilt in 1526. It was accepted as a county bridge by 1831. It is a single arch, single track bridge and formerly carried all local north—south traffic, controlled in the later 20th century by traffic lights. Following the building of the new Silk Mills Road to the east with a new flat bridge the old bridge takes local parish traffic only.