IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
SOUTH BRENT, TQ10 9FA

Photographed from a grander and more modern stone built bridge with a balustraded parapet. This area is 'Brent Mills' but I was in a rush and saw no definite former water mills.

The old bridge over the River Avon at Brent Mill, on a typical damp summer Devon day, showing the Toll house Image and the "old" A38 in the background. The privy Image is in the shadow on the left of the bridge. Update - the bridge is grade II listed and may date back to the C17th and C18th, see http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-99356.

A view of the bridge over the Avon shown in Image "C17 or C18 pack-horse bridge widened on north side circa C18 ... widening is probably C18 and the bridge may be C17." http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=99356&mode=adv

In the yard of the Toll House at Brent Mill Image, right next to the bridge Image is the remains of a privy that has partly collapsed into the river that it originally used to discharge into. The river is eroding the bank below the privy, which obviously is no longer used!

This modest cottage was once a toll house, and stands next to the bridge over the River Avon just off the old A38. Originally this was where the pre 1820 road from Wrangaton and Plymouth came into the village, and it marks the western end of the Ashburton and Totnes Turnpike Trust's responsibilities, the eastern end being in Chudleigh some 20 miles to the east.

Carved stone post by the B3372 (was A38), in parish of South Brent (South Hams District), East end of Brentmill Bridge, just off B3372, near old toll house, on muddy verge by small gate, on South side of road. Ashburton tombstone, erected by the Ashburton (Ashburton & Totnes Consolidated) turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- BRENT FROM ASH BURTON VIII M(ILES) Devon & Dartmoor HER. HER Number: MDV3131 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV3131&resourceID=104 Milestone Society National ID: DV_PLEX16

Photographed from an abutment is this stone bridge that used to carry the old A38 before it was replaced with a dual carriageway. This was as far as I got down the steeply embanked abutment before returning to the solidity of the carriageway.

As it flows through South Brent,close to Brent Mill Bridge.

Toll House in the parish of South Brent (South Hams District), Old Toll House, Brent Mill, TQ10. (For a photo of the derelict tollhouse privy see https://www.flickr.com/photos/tollhouses/2514000478 ) Devon & Dartmoor HER. HER Number: MDV13155 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDV13155&resourceID=104 Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: DV.SBR