Stara Bridge

Stara Bridge is located 0.43 miles (0.69 km) west of the hamlet of Rillaton, in the parish of Linkinhorne in east Cornwall, 6.8 miles (10.9 km) east of the Devon border, and on the southern perimeter of Stara Woods.

The abutments and causeways have masonry walls of roughly dressed granite and rubble.

The bridge has a contemporary mettled road surface, between low parapets of granite block construction.

[1] The date of construction of the bridge is uncertain; Historic England suggest the late Middle Ages, a span of 200 years from 1301-1500.

Historic England argues that Stara Bridge must have been constructed at a time when Rillaton - now a hamlet of few houses - was still sufficiently locally important and wealthy enough to afford its construction; and the decline in the manorial system at the end of the Middle Ages points to a date prior to 1500.