Corbridge

Worth seeing in and around Corbridge

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Aydon Castle

   Aydon Castle, previously sometimes called Aydon Hall, is a fortified manor house at Aydon near to the town of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.

   2.1 km · fortified manor house near Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Coria

   Coria was a fort and town 2.5 miles south of Hadrian's Wall, in the Roman province of Britannia. It was strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road with the River Tyne and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the first frontier line which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium.

   900 m · archaeological site in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Corbridge Lion

   The Corbridge Lion, Northumberland, England, is an ancient Roman free-standing sandstone sculpture of a male lion standing on a prone animal on a semi-cylindrical coping stone base. Measuring 0.95m in length by 0.36m in width and 0.87m high, it was originally a piece of decorative funerary ornamentation from a tomb.

   900 m · ancient Roman sandstone sculpture · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Hunnum

   Hunnum was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall located north of the modern-day village of Halton, Northumberland in North East England. It was the fifth fort on Hadrian's Wall and is situated about 7.5 miles west of Vindobala fort, 5.9 miles east of Chesters fort and 2.5 miles north of the Stanegate fort of Coria.

   4 km · Roman fort in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Dilston Castle

   Dilston Castle is a ruined tower house at Dilston in the parish of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. Both the tower and its attendant private chapel are scheduled monuments and Grade I listed buildings.

   1.9 km · Grade I listed tower house in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Beaufront Castle

   Beaufront Castle is a privately owned 19th-century country house near Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is a Grade I listed building.

   3 km · Grade I listed castle in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Halton Castle

   Halton Castle is a pele tower and grade I listed building situated close to Hadrian's Wall to the north of the village of Corbridge in Northumberland, England. The tower was first recorded in 1382 and it is still present today.

   3.4 km · Grade I listed peel tower in Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Corbridge Bridge

   Corbridge Bridge is a 17th-century stone bridge across the River Tyne at Corbridge, Northumberland, England, at the point where another structure, eventually a toll bridge, was constructed in the 13th-century. The later, characteristic 7-span structure would be the only bridge on the Tyne to withstand the Great Flood of 1771.

   300 m · Grade I listed bridge in Corbridge, Northumberland, England · Wikipedia
9. 09
   The Vicars Pele

   Corbridge Vicar's Pele is a pele tower in the village of Corbridge, Northumberland, England. It was a three-storey defensive pele tower, with one room to each storey, built in the churchyard in 1318, and used as the vicarage for the adjacent church.

   200 m · Grade I listed peel tower and pub in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Sandhoe Hall

    Sandhoe Hall, also once known as Sandhoe House, is a 19th-century country house situated at Sandhoe, Northumberland. It is a Grade II listed building.

    2.7 km · country house in Sandhoe, Northumberland, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   St Andrews Church is central

   The church was first erected by monks of Hexham Abbey in 676 AD and some Saxon components remain, plus a hotchpotch of later styles.

2. 02
   Corbridge Roman Town

   The first Roman fort here was built in 84 AD as they pushed north against the Picts.

3. 03
   Old Potteries
4. 04
   Aydon Castle

   Substantial 13th-century mansion, retro-fitted as a defensive tower when the threat from Scotland grew.

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Things to do

Hadrian's Wall Path is a grassy trail across the fields following the vallum, the ditch and embankment. The wall masonry hereabouts has long ago been taken for other buildings. Northumberland County Show is held in late May at Bywell six miles east, see Prudhoe. Corbridge Steam Rally is in June on Tynedale Park. Corbridge Music Festival is usually at the end of June, but it's been on hold since 2019.

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Where to eat

Corbridge Tandoori in Market Place gets mixed reviews. It's open daily 5-11PM. Corbridge Larder is a deli cafe at

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Getting to Corbridge

Airports

Newcastle (NCL), 22 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 125 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 138 km

Stations

Corbridge railway station, 1 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Corbridge

  134 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · £15–20
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• Ingliston, Edinburgh → Corbridge

  137 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · £14–19
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• Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Corbridge

  174 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · £20–26
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