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Things New and Old Item 7: The Old Clapper Bridge at Dartmeet
This is the seventh item from Robert Dymond’s book: “Things New and Old Concerning the Parish of Widecombe-in-the-Moor and its Neighbourhood” (1876). THE OLD CLAPPER BRIDGE AT DARTMEET “These Moors are changeable in their wills.”—Othello. ON the 4th of August, 1826, Widecombe was visited by a violentthunderstorm, which lasted from 3 to 7 o’clock p.m.…