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The clapper bridge at Postbridge. A fine example, the Postbridge Clapper Bridge, can be found at Postbridge, on Dartmoor. Its slabs are over 4 metres (13 ft) long, 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) wide and weigh over 8 metric tons (7.9 long tons; 8.8 short tons) each, making the bridge passable to a small cart.
Postbridge is a hamlet in the heart of Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.It lies on the B3212, roughly midway between Princetown and Moretonhampstead.. Postbridge is on the East Dart river, one of two main tributaries of the River Dart, and consists of a few houses, a shop, a pub and hotel, and a national park tourist information centre.
Area code 904 was created in an area code split of area code 305 in 1965. In 2024, the numbering plan received a second area code, 324 , through the creation of an overlay complex to mitigate central office code exhaustion and provide additional telephone numbers in the area.
As it continues north, Goodlette-Frank Road leaves Naples city limits and passes a number of residential communities before intersecting CR 896 (Pine Ridge Road). After passing Pine Ridge Road, Goodlette-Frank Road enters the community of North Naples and intersects CR 862 (Vanderbilt Beach Road) before terminating at CR 846 (Immokalee Road).
The Cherry Brook is a tributary of the West Dart River on Dartmoor, Devon, England.. It rises about a kilometre north of Lower White Tor in the open moorland and flows in a generally southerly direction past Powder Mills, the site of a 19th-century gunpowder factory, then under a clapper bridge where it turns easterly and passes under the B3212 road at Higher Cherrybrook Bridge.
It flows south and then south-west for around 9 km to reach the village of Postbridge where it is spanned by a well-known clapper bridge. Before reaching Postbridge the river swings to the east, and then to north-east, flowing between clitter (boulder) strewn steep slopes before once again flowing south.
Regular transit bus service and the paratransit system are administered by the Collier County Department of Alternative Transportation Modes. Service is provided to Immokalee, Marco Island, Golden Gate and the City of Naples area, [3] seven days a week from 6 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. depending on the route.
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