These are the remains of the bridge built between 1190 and 1236. The river now runs behind where I'm stood taking this photo having been contained by concrete embankments. The river is now crossed at this point by 2 bridges built in 1969 and 1972 which form part of a roundabout (the road between the 2 bridges is where the photo is taken from). Between the medieval and 20th Century bridges there was a Georgian stone bridge built of stone and an iron and steel bridge completed in 1905.
@virtualbrownie@pennystot@susale@moxy@macromover@nanderson thank you for you comments. Exeter has many historic buildings and ruins that are on open view, the difficulty when photographing them is to be able to exclude modern life!! This is positioned in a triangle of busy roads that are raised higher. From the centre towards the right of the top edge the colour is different this is where the tower of St Edmund church is which was built on the bridge. I not found a vantage point to get a good image of the tower without the surrounding clutter. Even now I see I did not successfully crop this as I can see the floodlight both sides of tower base....
@kiscsillag@tabarlett@38dcmoder Thank you, it is just grass and earth around the remains of the bridge now, sort of public parkland. All the water in the foreground is just floodwater following recent storms.
