Berwick Bridge

Berwick Bridge — known locally as the Old Bridge — spans the River Tweed on fifteen sandstone arches, built between 1611 and 1624 at the command of King James I. It replaced four earlier crossings on the same site, one destroyed during an English military assault in 1216, others swept away by floods, and a timber structure from 1376 that finally prompted James to commission something more permanent. For centuries the bridge formed a key staging point on the main road between Edinburgh and London, in a border town that changed hands between England and Scotland thirteen times. Now a Grade I listed structure reserved for pedestrians, it offers quiet views along the Tweed, across Berwick's Elizabethan town walls, and toward the neighboring Royal Tweed Bridge.