Editing Totnes (section)

==Geography==
[[File:The River Dart at Totnes.jpg|thumb|right|The River Dart at Totnes]]
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The town is built on a hill rising from the west bank of the [[River Dart]], which separates Totnes from the suburb of [[Bridgetown, Devon|Bridgetown]]. It is at the lowest bridging point of the river which here is tidal and forms a winding estuary down to the sea at [[Dartmouth, Devon|Dartmouth]]. The river continues to be tidal for about {{convert|1|mi}} above the town, until it meets Totnes [[Weir]], built in the 17th century.

Today there are two road bridges, a railway bridge and a footbridge over the river in the town. Totnes Bridge is the nearest bridge to the sea and is a road bridge built in 1826–28 by Charles Fowler.<ref name="CP"/> At low tide the foundations of the previous stone bridge are visible just upstream—it was probably built in the early 13th century and widened in 1692. Before the first stone bridge was built there was almost certainly a wooden bridge here, and a tidal ford for heavy vehicles was just downstream.<ref>{{cite book|last=Russell|first=Percy|title=The Good Town of Totnes|publisher=The Devonshire Association|location=Exeter|year=1984|edition=Second impression with Introduction|page=26}}</ref> In 1982 a new concrete bridge was built about {{convert|1000|ft}} upstream as part of the Totnes inner relief road. Its name, Brutus Bridge, was chosen by the local residents.<ref>Russell 1984, p.xv.</ref><!-- I expect to add many refs to this book, so I hope to change them to proper [[WP:CITESHORT]] format--> A further {{convert|0.5|mi}} upstream, the railway bridge carries the [[National Rail]] [[Exeter to Plymouth line]] over the river. Immediately upstream of the railway bridge is a footbridge, built in 1993 to provide access to the {{stnlnk|Totnes (Riverside)}} terminus of the [[South Devon Railway Trust|South Devon Railway]].<ref name=sdravgc4>{{cite book | last = Taylor | first = Alan |author2=Treglown, Peter  | title = South Devon Railway – A Visitors Guide | publisher = South Devon Railway Trust | date = May 1999 | pages = 23–28 }}</ref>