Mr. Risdon, in his History of Devon, part ii. p. 298, gives the true
etymology of this place, in those words, “Bridge Renold, of the vulgar
Bridge Rule, anciently Brige, by which name it is simply so called
before the Norman Conqueror bestowed it upon Reginald[21] Adobed, and
hence it took the adjunct of its owner.” The original of the primitive
name is the bridge connecting the two parts across the Tamar.
The manor of Tackbere, in Domesday called Tacabere, was one of those
which the Conqueror bestowed on his half-brother the Earl of Morton.