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Extract from the Corbridge Travel Guides:
Buses from Newcastle and trains on the Newcastle-Hexham-Carlisle line stop at
CORBRIDGE
, a well-heeled town overlooking the River Tyne from the top of a steep ridge. This spur of land was first settled by the Saxons, and their handiwork survives in parts of the
Church of St Andrew
, on the central Market Place, but it's the adjacent
Vicar's Pele
that catches the eye, a well-preserved fourteenth-century fortified tower-house.
One mile west of the Market Place, accessible by road or along the riverside footpath - take the street opposite the
Watling Coffee House
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read the whole Corbridge Travel Guides...
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