Walk by pat40

Photography • Architecture • posted on Sep 14, 2012

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The completion of the new landmark Gem Bridge near Tavistock has been celebrated at a special ceremony. Devon County Council marked the occasion at the £2.1 million cycle and pedestrian bridge, which crosses the Walkham Valley, and also officially opened the picnic area next to the bridge. The picnic area, designed by pupils from Whitchurch Primary School, has been made from reclaimed granite blocks from the ruins of Brunel’s original viaduct, which was constructed in the valley in 1859 and demolished in the 1960s. Local school children buried a time capsule in the picnic area after the ceremony. Brunel’s viaduct was one of the longest in Devon at over 300 metres, standing up to 40 metres above the River and the then working mines. The new 200-metre long bridge is 24 metres high, or the equivalent height of five double-decker buses stacked on top of each other. It looks across to Dartmoor to the east and Sticklepath Woods to the west