Postbridge on Dartmoor is famous for its clapper bridge which straddles the East Dart River. Constructed from four large granite slabs resting on three granite piers, it's probably the finest bridge ...

The clapper bridge, a series of thin stone slabs supported on rock piers, receives its name from the Medieval Latin word “clapus,” meaning pile of stones. These pre-historic structures found in Devon, ...

Before and after - the old slate 'clapper' bridge was washed away in storms A new bridge across a Snowdonia mountain brook is "ugly over-engineered lumps of concrete and steel", a conservation group ...