At one time known by some as the “Cyclopean Bridge,” some form of the now Postbridge Clapper has stood at this location for centuries. The word clapper is thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon word cleaca, which means stepping stones, or “bridging the stepping stones.” The Dartmoor term for the slabs is posts, which is how Postbridge acquired its name. The bridge may date back as early as the 1300s, as many of the nearby moorland farms had been established by this time. The earliest documented record of the bridge comes…
