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It has nine "misshapen" arches, [11] of which seven span the river, one is a dry arch on the East Looe side, and one at the West Looe side forms a pedestrian passage. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] The roadway had an original uniform width of 18 ft 2 in (5.54 m), [ 4 ] but underwent a programme of widening in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Downstream of the bridge, the only crossing of the river is Looe Bridge. [6] At the north side of the bridge, the road continues on a causeway over mudflats and saltings. [3] The East Looe River is tidal as far as Tregarland Bridge – a little over 1 mi (1.6 km) upstream of Terras Bridge – and so flooding of the causeway is not uncommon.
Looe (/ ˈ l uː /; Cornish: Logh, [1] lit. ' deep water inlet ') is a coastal town and civil parish in south-east Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, with a population of 5,280 at the 2011 census.
Liskeard and Looe Railway; Looe Bridge; Looe Community Academy; Looe East (electoral division) Looe Guildhall; Looe high-level railway station; Looe Island; Looe Lifeboat Station; Looe Music Festival; Looe railway station; Looe Valley Line; Looe West, Lansallos and Lanteglos (electoral division) Looe West, Pelynt, Lansallos and Lanteglos ...
The canal started from a point on the tidal East Looe River just below Terras Bridge, about a mile (about 1.5 km) above Looe bridge.When the railway branch line was built, a bridge over the canal was made, and this bridge can still be seen, showing the alignment of the canal at its lower termination.
The borough consisted of the town of East Looe in Cornwall, connected by bridge across the River Looe to West Looe, which was also a parliamentary borough.From the reign of Edward VI, East Looe and West Looe were jointly a borough, returning two members of Parliament; however, under Queen Elizabeth the two towns were separated, and each thereafter returned two members except between 1654 and ...
The Liskeard to Looe line at Terras level crossing from the causeway, looking east. The Liskeard and Looe Railway can nowadays be more conveniently thought of as the Looe Branch. It leaves Liskeard station (on the broadly east-west Plymouth to Penzance main line) in a northward direction, turning in a narrow sweep to pass southwards under the ...
The town of Looe sits on the west and east side of the estuary. The estuary is a ria and was formed around 12,000 years ago. [1] From 1405 to 1411, a bridge was built over the estuary and in 1824, a coastguard station was built, possibly to suppress smuggling operations in the area. [2]