Corbridge Trip

We recently decided to take advantage of some of a series of teacher-led group trips offered to students by a teacher in the Classics department here at Newcastle (she's actually our Greek teacher). Last semester they went to several historic sites within Newcastle (as well as some outside the city), but this semester there were several trips on offer to places we really had wanted to get to for a long time. The first was Corbridge village and Roman fort. We left Newcastle after lunch on Sunday February 7th, arriving in Corbridge village (west of Newcastle) about 45 minutes later. From there, we walked along a beautiful, though quite muddy, stretch of the Tyne, making our way towards the fort. Along the way, our teacher would tell the group various facts about the area (all interesting for lovers of Roman history). After a 20-30 minute walk, we arrived at the site of the old Roman fort at Corbridge (now a modern English Heritage site) and spent an hour or so exploring around the old fort, while hearing tidbits about the history of the site and the nearby landscape. After finishing our fort exploration, we walked along the road (rather than the river) back to Corbridge village where we were led through a very old church in the village and told more interesting facts about the history of the place. It (like many sites in the northeast of England) seemed to change hands between the English and the Scots numerous times during their wars.


The river Tyne in a more serene setting than Newcastle

The Roman fort at Corbridge

The graveyard outside the church in Corbridge