Yeolmbridge
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| constituency_westminster = North Cornwall
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Yeolmbridge is a village in Cornwall (but within the boundaries of the historic county of Devon), two and a half miles north of Launceston.[http://wikimapia.org/11870229/Yeolmbridge Wikimapia, Yeolmbridge]
Yeolm Bridge
File:Werrington, Yeolmbridge - geograph.org.uk - 457070.jpg
The village takes its name from the bridge, Yeolm Bridge which crosses the River Ottery and is Grade I listed and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. Built about 1350, it is considered the oldest surviving and best built of medieval Cornish bridges. In 1951 Nikolaus Pevsner described it as Cornwall's "most ambitious" bridge.[http://www.engineering-timelines.com/scripts/engineeringItem.asp?id=950 Engineering Timelines, Yeolm Bridge]Pevsner, N. (1951) Cornwall. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 220
Quarry
Yeolmbridge Quarry SSSI is 250 m to the east of the village. The quarry is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Geological Conservation Review (GCR) site, as the type–locality of the Yeolmbridge Formation; a black shale which shows the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary around 359 million years ago with a sequence of fossils.{{cite web|title=Yeolmbridge Quarry|url=http://www.sssi.naturalengland.org.uk/citation/citation_photo/1001103.pdf|publisher=Natural England|year=1990|access-date=27 October 2011}}
Notable people
- Joan Rendell, an English historian, writer and phillumenist, was resident at Yeolmbridge in the latter part of her life.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/8661860.stm |title=Fire crews work to save historian Rendell's archive |publisher=BBC News |date=5 May 2010 |accessdate=2010-05-16}}
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