Clapper Bridge crossing the river Dart in Postbridge, Devon (United Kingdom)

Clappers: quarried flats

laid like tableboards

over stacked supports,

colonised by lichens, moss.

You love the coppery run

of the stream, its scatter of insects

ringed in brightness

the single, slate-finned fish

...

From the Poem Clapper Bridge 
by Fiona Benson

Tarr Steps Bridge crossing the Barle River in the Exmoor National Park (United Kingdom)

The Devil built the bridge at Tarr Steps and still has sunbathing rights on its stones. The myth says that the devil swore he would kill anyone who tried to cross his bridge. The terrified locals got the parson to face him. A cat was sent over the Bridge but was vaporised in a puff of smoke. The parson then set off and met the Devil midway. The Devil swore and intimidated him but the parson reciprocated equally and finally the Devil conceded to let people pass except when he wants to sunbathe.

Legend of Tarr Steps Bridge

Dartmeet Bridge spanning the East Dart River in Dartmoor (United Kingdom)

Dartmoor has a few bogs and mires, which walkers should give due care and attention to. There is a local tale of a young man walking past a mire and seeing a hat on the ground. Picking up the hat he was surprised to find a man’s head underneath it. He readily offered to assist the gentleman out of his difficulties, only to hear the reply that the gentleman also needed the horse that he was sitting on rescued as well.

Legend of Dartmoor

Clapper Bridge over the East Dart River in Postbridge, Dartmoor (United Kingdom)

Too long have I dwelt

In the valley beneath ;

Too long have I felt

The soft summer wind's breath ;

Too long have I lingered

In evergreen bowers,

And drank the air laden

With fragrance of flowers.

They felt the gale smiting

Their brows in its motion ;

They heard the stream fighting

Its way to the ocean.

They saw the rough granite

By thunderbolts riven,

And deemed that the mountains

Were nearest to heaven.

Dartmoor

Alexander Henry Abercromby Hamilton