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There is a submerged clapper bridge at Knack Mine Ford. Hemery (1983) writes: “The track crossing the river at Knack Mine Ford is an old peat road between Belstone and Hangingstone Hill, later utilized by the miners, who built the clapper bridge described by Crossing in 1908 as “partly ruined”. Its ruin has long been complete and the impost slabs now lie piled by the force of the river at its edge. Its dimensions when intact were recorded by Dr Arthur B. Prowse in 1889 as twenty-nine feet long, fifteen feet wide, of four openings and spanning the river obliquely – parallel to the paved ford, in fact.“

Reference:

• Hemery, E. (1983): High Dartmoor – Land and People

The photo was taken after a dry spell; the imposts normally aren’t visible above the water.

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