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Main image: Lane at Clifford Bridge. Photograph: Derek Harper.
- River: Teign, at the foot of the gorge, on the Moretonhampstead and Dunsford boundary
- Grid reference: SX 780 897
- Date: 17th century or earlier; widened on both sides in the mid 19th century
- Built of: granite, three spans, narrow round arches widened in ashlar
- Designation: Grade II, Historic England list entry 1146710 (listed 23 August 1955)
Clifford Bridge is mentioned by Leland. The listing says 17th century or earlier and does not call it medieval. The 1870 guide thinks the scenery very fine and characteristic but not so bold and grand as at Fingle. It carries the minor road between Tedburn St Mary and Mardon Down.
The gorge runs from here to Fingle Bridge and Steps Bridge. Wooston Castle is about two miles away by an old guide's reckoning.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1146710; Treks and Tors, Clifford Bridge; W. Crossing, Guide to Dartmoor (1914).
This bridge is one of the crossings gathered in Dartmoor Bridges, a guide to the clapper bridges, packhorse bridges and road bridges of the moor and its edge.
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