Tootle Bridge
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| Bridge Name: | Tootle Bridge | |||
| No.: | 25 | |||
| Location: | Honey Mead Lane, Barton St David | |||
| Build Date: | 13th century | |||
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| Description: | ||||
| Masonry road bridge. Lias stone cut and squared, ashlar copings. 3 semi-circular arches, of which the centre is slightly taller; solid parapets sightly pointed in centre with curved end returns: two rows voussoirs to arches; one angled cutwater to west side and two to east. Records of bridges in this location in the early medieval period. English Heritage Listed Building Number: 262813.1
The Ilchester road crossed the Brue by a bridge known in 1315 as Todelemill and later as Tootle. Its great arch was in danger of collapse in 1719 and it was then completely rebuilt.2 |
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| References: | 1. Somerset HER id=51478 Also in The Ancient Bridges of the South of England by Jervoise. 2.British History online V9 id 117177 |
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