River: Walla Brook (not the Wallabrook on the North Teign)
Grid reference: SX 66994 77624
Date: probably 18th or early 19th century
Spans: three, with pointed cutwaters upstream
Designation: Grade II, Historic England list entry 1241511 (listed 3 November 1986)
This clapper carries the road from Cator to Bellever across the Walla Brook near Pizwell. Historic England dates it to probably the 18th or early 19th century, three spans with pointed cutwaters on the upstream side.
Do not confuse it with the Wallabrook Clapper Bridge on the North Teign, or with the Teign-e-ver Clapper Bridge, which are the remote clappers of the north moor.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1241511.
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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Plate from Dartmoor Illustrated, page 156, 1900