Clapperbridge at Postbridge

LARGE

At just 48 hours notice, we booked a 3 day stay in Dartmoor, staying in North Bovey. Before checking in, we stopped off at Postbridge to see the ancient Clapper Bridge. The bridge built in 1380, is 13 feet long and 6 feet wide. It was built for packhorses to transport tin to Tavistock. How DID they move those massive stones?!

2 coach loads of Germans arrived at the same time as we did, but once they had spent no more than 5 minutes taking photos, they were back on the bus! We had been photographing this fisherman making his way upstream catching small trout. I asked it he would mind continuing all the way up to the bridge, and was able to get this shot looking under the bridge to frame him. There are 1000s of images of this bridge on Google, but I think I might just have got a unique one!

Tomorrow we are having a blipmeet with My Dartmoor Walks.