Brutus Bridge, Totnes The bridge was built in 1982 to create a relief road Also the year i was born . "According to the Historia Regum Britanniae written by Geoffrey of Monmouth in around 1136, "the coast of Totness" was where Brutus of Troy, the mythical founder of Britain, first came ashore on the island. Set into the pavement of Fore Street is the 'Brutus Stone', a small granite boulder onto which, according to local legend, Brutus first stepped from his ship. As he did so, he was supposed to have declaimed: 'Here I am and here I rest. And this town shall be called Totnes.