Plymbridge Road

One of the longest winding roads in Plymouth is Plymbridge Road which runs from the bottom of the Ridgeway at Plympton all the way through to Tavistock Road at Roborough.

Given that it crosses the ancient stone bridge which gives it its name this is not altogether surprising as Plym Bridge itself is the oldest of the southern crossings of the Plym and the Ridgeway and Tavistock Road are the two oldest principal routes into and out of Plymouth, to the north and east respectively.

Plym Bridge itself is of uncertain age, its first known reference is in the "Devon Feet of Fines" which recorded an agreement in June 1238 which mentioned "the highway leading to Tavistock, as far as below the old pond mill of Bocland by the Bridge of the Plyme".