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Harford Bridge (River Tavy)
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Main image: Harford Bridge. Photograph: Mr Ignavy.
- River: Tavy, at Peter Tavy near Tavistock
- Grid reference: SX 505 767
- Date: probably 16th century with some mid to late 19th-century rebuilding
- Built of: three arches, two triangular cutwaters each side
- Designation: Grade II, Historic England list entry 1105750 (listed 14 June 1952)
This is the Harford Bridge of William Crossing's road routes: to Okehampton by Moor Shop and Harford Bridge, and to Lydford by Moor Shop, Harford Bridge and Skit. It has three arches and two triangular cutwaters on each side, probably 16th century with later rebuilding. It is not the Harford Bridge on the Erme; see Harford Bridge (River Erme).
Sources: Historic England list entry 1105750; 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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