Bickham Bridge

This image was taken in September 1945 of Bickham bridge over the River Avon near Diptford on the southern edge of Dartmoor, in the parish of South Huish. At this point after leaving Dartmoor the river is flowing through the farming land of South Devon. Bickham bridge is on the site of a very old crossing of the Avon. It is mentioned as a bridge in a charter of King Edgar dated 962 (beoccan bricge) and appears to have joined two important ridgeways on the hills E. and W. of the Avon valley. The present bridge may well be of 16th century date.