River Torridge

A view of a bridge from a bridge that I hadn’t been over before. The bridge in view is one I often cycle over on the Tarka Trail, the one I’m standing on leads to Beam House.
Tarka the Otter was born at Beam, by what the author Henry Williamson called the "Canal Bridge" (i.e. the Beam Aqueduct) and particularly favoured the River Torridge at Beam Weir. Thus the cycleway which crosses the river at Beam, formerly the railway line, was named the "Tarka Trail", due to its association with these and other haunts of the fictional animal. Today Beam is used as an adventure centre for young people.