River: East Dart, just above its meeting with the West Dart
Grid reference: SX 67195 73182
Date: 1792
Built of: granite rubble, two round arches, stepped cutwaters
Designation: Grade II, Historic England list entry 1241516 (listed 3 November 1986)
The road bridge at Dartmeet was built in 1792, and a tablet on the north parapet reads County Bridge 1792. It has two round arches and stepped pyramid cutwaters. The listing and Wikipedia both place it over the East Dart, which joins the West Dart just downstream; old school geography in our Library says the two streams meet at Dartmeet Bridge, which is close enough to both.
Twenty metres upstream is the Dartmeet clapper bridge. The first documented form of the place name is Dartameet, in a Duchy of Cornwall document of 1616, and Dartmeet is a boundary point in the perambulation of 1240.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1241516; Wikipedia, Dartmeet.
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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