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Turning bridge at Porte-Joie

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Can someone determine if the turning bridge at Porte-Joie is really a swing bridge or a change bridge where horses are changed from one side of a waterway to the other side. Peter Horn User talk 18:15, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Marjorie Nice Boyer: Medieval French Bridges. A History, Cambridge: Massachusetts, The Mediaeval Academy of America 1976, ISBN 0-910956-58-8, p. 191 reads: Portejoie (Eure), cant. Pont-de-l'Arche, arr. Louviers. Turning bridge. 1198. 11: Mortet and Deschamps, 172, n. 4. "Mortet and Deschamps, 172, n. 4." refers to Boyer's source, but unfortunately I don't have her bibliography at hand. Hope this helps. A turning bridge that early would be a fascinating find. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 21:43, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
And so it would be. If it does not turn the what does it do? Would this be a case of a misnomer? Peter Horn User talk 23:21, 7 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think so, but the only way to find out is to track down the reference given by Boyer. Gun Powder Ma (talk) 01:36, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
"Good luck". Peter Horn User talk 02:37, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
May be it is a draw bridge? After all, a draw bridge "turns" on a horizontal axis rather than on a vertical axis as does a swing bridge. Peter Horn User talk 17:26, 8 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I changed the "redirect" of turning bridge, click and you-all will see. Peter Horn User talk 16:01, 9 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Place names with "Pont"

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Are all of these actually bridges? Some of them just seem to be places that happen to have "Pont" in the name. Pont Rousseau in Rezé isn't a 12th-century bridge anymore, it's just a place name. (Unless there really is a 12th century bridge there and I completely missed it, which is possible...) Pont-en-Vertais in Nantes is not an actual bridge either, is it? I also wonder how old some of this information is ("Loire-Inférieure" was renamed Loire-Atlantique in 1957). Adam Bishop (talk) 12:04, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]