Description
Laira, the estuary of the river Plym, and an extra-parochial tract in Devonshire, contiguous to Egg Buckland parish, in the north-eastern vicinity of Plymouth. Laira Bridge here is a five-arched cast-iron erection of 1827, is 500 feet in length, was constructed at the expense of the Earl of Morley, after designs by Rendal, and was for a time the largest structure of its kind in England excepting that of Southwark.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
