WADEBRIDGE  , a

market town and seaport in the St Austell parliamentary division of Cornwall, England, on the Great Western and London & South-Western railways, 38 m . W.N.W. of Plymouth . Pop. of urban district (1901), 2186 . It is picturesquely situated at the head of the estuary of the river Camel, 7 M. from its mouth in Padstow Bay on the north coast . A stone bridge, consisting of seventeen arches, was built in 1485 over the river, and made a county bridge under James I . The parish church of Egloshayle, nearly 2 M. from the town, is in the main Perpendicular, with a beautiful tower; but part of the fabric is Early English . The neighbouring church of St Breock is Decorated and Perpendicular, with a fine font of the earlier period . An ancient round-headed cross stands near the town . There is considerable agricultural trade, and iron founding is carried on; while in the neighbourhood some copper, lead, granite and slate are worked and exported in small vessels; coal, timber and general merchandise being imported .