Barnstaple Long Bridge

Barnstaple Long Bridge is a medieval bridge linking Tawstock with Barnstaple in North Devon, England, spanning the River Taw. One of the biggest medieval bridges in Britain, it's miles a Grade I indexed constructing and ancient monument. Another major medieval bridge, the Bideford Long Bridge over the Torridge, is some miles away. The date of the first bridge as Barnstaple's foremost bridge throughout the River Taw is unclear. A will of 1274 left money for its protection and it underwent construction paintings around 1280 with similarly paintings being undertaken in 1333, and the bridge turned into in part destroyed in 1437 and 1646.

It is uncertain whether all of the arches have been firstly built of stone or whether or not three had been timber until substitute within the sixteenth century. In 1796, the bridge was widened once more. The footpath become added in the 1830s and cast iron used to strengthen the bridge below the course of James Green. In the 1960s, a number of the unique stonework of the deck become changed with concrete faced with masonry, above the authentic stone arches, disposing of the Victorian ironworks to give the bridge an photograph equal to how it'd have seemed among 1796 and 1832.