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Meldon Viaduct is a Victorian railway bridge constructed in 1874 to carry the London and South Western Railway across the Meldon Valley near Okehampton in Devon. The structure is built of granite and comprises ten segmental arches, representing a significant example of nineteenth-century railway engineering in the southwestern counties. The viaduct remains an important landmark of the railway age, demonstrating the scale of Victorian infrastructure development required to extend rail communications into rural Devon. It continues to serve as an active railway crossing and is recognised as a heritage monument of considerable historical and architectural interest.
Meldon viaduct is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002631. View the official record →
Meldon Viaduct is a Victorian railway bridge constructed in 1874 to carry the London and South Western Railway across the Meldon Valley near Okehampton in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002631.
Meldon viaduct is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002631.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round cairn 240m north of Ger Tor (9.2 km), A stone hut circle 50m west of Western Red Lake (9.2 km), Stone hut circle settlement and enclosures 970m east of Ger Tor (9.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Meldon viaduct's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Meldon viaduct stands on Teign Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Namurian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.