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Photo of Royal Border Bridge, a landmark near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, north east England.

© Jim Osley / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Royal Border Bridge

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The Royal Border Bridge carries the East Coast main line across the Tweed at Berwick on 28 tall stone arches — Robert Stephenson’s viaduct, opened by Queen Victoria in 1850. Arriving by train you cross it without quite seeing it; the real view is from the town below, or the riverside walk. Berwick-upon-Tweed station sits right at its northern end, and the older Union Chain Bridge lies a few miles upriver.

More places to visit near Royal Border Bridge

Photo of Berwick Barracks and Main Guard, a visitor attraction near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, north east England.Highlight

Berwick Barracks and Main Guard

Attraction near Berwick-upon-Tweed

Georgian barracks of 1717–21 inside Berwick's town walls, first sketched by Nicholas Hawksmoor before a plainer design was built, now holding displays on army life.

0.8 km E

Photo of Berwick-upon-Tweed, a village in Northumberland, north east England.Highlight

Berwick-upon-Tweed

Village

England's northernmost town, ringed by Elizabethan ramparts and spanned by three bridges over the Tweed that Lowry painted for decades.

0.8 km SE · Northumberland

Photo of Berwick Ramparts, a landmark near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, north east England.Highlight

Berwick Ramparts

Landmark near Berwick-upon-Tweed

A near-complete circuit of Elizabethan artillery walls around Berwick, walkable in an hour with views over town and sea.

1.9 km N

Photo of Cocklawburn Beach, a beach near Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, north east England.Highlight

Cocklawburn Beach

Beach near Berwick-upon-Tweed

A quiet local's beach south of Berwick, with rock pools, dunes and old lime kilns above the shore.

2.2 km SE

Photo of the Northumberland Coast, a National Landscape in Northumberland, north east England.Highlight

Northumberland Coast

National Landscape near Belford

Castle after castle strung along empty sand, with puffins and seals just offshore if the boat trip's running

3.6 km SE

Photo of Union Chain Bridge, a landmark near Norham, Northumberland, north east England.Highlight

Union Chain Bridge

Landmark near Norham

A slender 1820 suspension bridge over the Tweed at Horncliffe, among the oldest of its kind still carrying traffic.

5.4 km SW