THE SOUTH DEVON 



MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, MAY 1st, 1835. 



No. 29.] Price Sixpence. [Vol. V. 



LONG BRIDGE. 



The Bridge, here delineated, was built in the year 

 1753, at the expense of the county; and is now 

 about to be taken down and re-erected, being ill- 

 adapted to the increased number of carriages and 

 horses which now pass over it, and especially to the 

 degree of velocity with which our mail and other 

 coaches now travel. Its width is only ten feet, and 

 its position, at a right angle across the river, renders 

 it peculiarly incommodious, not to say dangerous. 

 It has been absurdly enough, continued to be called 

 the New Bridge, in contradistinction to the older 

 bridge across the Plym, higher up on that river, and 

 called Plym Bridge. Those who ought to have 

 given it a name, neglected to do so, but it is hoped 

 that a name will be now given ; though it must be 

 acknowledged that the bridges in its vicinity have 

 superseded the more obvious names of Plym and 

 Plympton. This name has been sometimes con- 

 founded with Long Bridge, which is properly appli- 

 cable only, to the raised road or bridge over the 

 marshes ; extending from the bridge over the stream 

 that flows by the side of Marsh House to New 

 Bridge. Before the turnpike road was constructed 

 here in 1758, there was merely a beaten track lead- 

 ing across these marshes (subject therefore to inun- 

 dation, and other impediments) communicating on 

 one side with the road leading by Leigham Gate to 

 Knackersknowle Village, and on the other with 



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