Yeolmbridge

Unitary authorityCeremonial countyRegionCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townLAUNCESTONPostcode districtPL15Dialling code01566PoliceDevon and CornwallFireCornwallAmbulanceSouth Western UK Parliament 50°39′43″N 4°22′54″W / 50.6620°N 4.3818°W / 50.6620; -4.3818

Yeolmbridge is a village in Cornwall (but within the boundaries of the historic county of Devon), two and a half miles north of Launceston.^[1]

Yeolm Bridge

The village takes its name from the bridge, Yeolm Bridge which crosses the River Ottery and is Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Built about 1350, it is considered the oldest surviving and best built of medieval Cornish bridges. In 1951 Nikolaus Pevsner described it as Cornwall's "most ambitious" bridge.^[2][3]

Quarry

Yeolmbridge Quarry SSSI is 250 m to the east of the village. The quarry is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Geological Conservation Review (GCR) site, as the type–locality of the Yeolmbridge Formation; a black shale which shows the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary around 359 million years ago with a sequence of fossils.^[4]

Notable people

• Joan Rendell, an English historian, writer and phillumenist, was resident at Yeolmbridge in the latter part of her life.^[5]

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