Plym Bridge

• River: Plym, on the Plymouth, Sparkwell and Plympton boundary (outside the National Park)
• Grid reference: SX 523 587
• Date: about the 18th century on earlier piers; a bridge here as early as 1238 (the listing)
• Designation: Historic England list entry 1162902 (first listed 23 April 1952); recorded as Grade II* by British Listed Buildings, as Grade II by Wikipedia: check on the Historic England site

Plym Bridge has five semicircular arches in killas rubble, with cutwaters on both sides and the springing of an earlier bridge visible just above the water. Historic England's text says a bridge existed here as early as 1238 on the main road from Tavistock to Plympton. The bridge lies at the foot of the Plym valley, outside the National Park.

It stands in Plymbridge Woods, owned by the National Trust, where peregrine falcons have nested in Cann Quarry since the 1960s and the old South Devon and Tavistock Railway (closed in 1962) is now the Drake's Trail. The Plym Valley Railway runs on a section of the old line.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1162902 (via British Listed Buildings); National Trust, Plymbridge Woods; Wikipedia, Plymbridge Woods.

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.