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Encyclopedia Britannica



WADEBRIDGE

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 228 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WADEBRIDGE , a market town and seaport in the St Austell parliamentary division of
Cornwall
 , England, on the
Great
  Western and London &
South
 -Western railways, 38 m. W.N.W. of Plymouth. Pop. of urban
district
  (1901), 2186. It is picturesquely situated at the head of the estuary of the river Camel, 7 M. from its mouth in Padstow Bay on the north
coast
 . A stone
bridge
 , consisting of seventeen
arches
 , was built in 1485 over the river, and made a county
bridge
  under James I. The parish church of Egloshayle, nearly 2 M. from the town, is in the main Perpendicular, with a beautiful tower; but part of the fabric is Early English. The neighbouring church of St Breock is Decorated and Perpendicular, with a fine font of the earlier period. An ancient round-headed
cross
  stands near the town. There is considerable agricultural
trade
 , and iron
founding
  is carried on; while in the neighbourhood some copper, lead, granite and slate are worked and exported in small vessels; coal, timber and general merchandise being imported.


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