The three bridges at sunset Berwick upon Tweed looking over the River Tweed towards Tweedmouth

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The bridges of Berwick upon Tweed The Old Bridge, the Royal Tweed Bridge, and the Royal Border Royal Tweed is the most recent, it carries the old A1 through the town. The Royal Border Bridge is a magnificent nineteenth century railway viaduct. Opened by Queen Victoria in 1850, it was built by Robert Stephenson, creating an important rail link between London and Edinburgh. The `Old Bridge', also known as `Berwick Bridge' dates from 1611. It is a fine red sandstone structure with fourteen arches. Until the nineteenth century it was the main crossing point of the Tweed at Berwick, but did not as might be expected link Northumberland to Scotland. It in fact linked the Norhamshire district of the County Palatinate of Durham to the county burgh of Berwick upon Tweed. Berwick during the Border Wars Berwick exchanged hands thirteen times before finally falling to England in 1482 Just outside the town in 1333 the Battle of Halidon Hill took part when King Edward III of England defeated the Scottish before putting the town to the sword

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