Bridge footings, Church Road, Alphington
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Bridge footings, Church Road, Alphington
Image: © David Smith Taken: 14 Sep 2019
The neatly shaped stone (from a local quarry at Pocombe Image) once supported a railway bridge for the branch line to Ide and Longdown from Exeter. The A377 follows the route of the line to the A30. There was a railway halt on the line on the north side of Church Road, lost to road and other development
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Image Location
Latitude
50.704435
Longitude
-3.537726