•     Introduction
•     Berwick-upon-Tweed    to Coldstream
  •     Mouth of the Tweed
  •     Berwick Bridge
  •     Royal Tweed Bridge
  •     Royal Border Bridge
  •     Berwick A1 Bridge
  •     Union Bridge, Horncliffe
  •     Ladykirk and Norham Bridge
  •     Coldstream Bridge
•     Coldstream to   Leaderfoot
  •     Hunter's Bridge Kelso
  •     Kelso Bridge
  •     Mertoun House Footbridge
  •     Mertoun Bridge
  •     Dryburgh Footbridge
  •     Drygrange Bridge, Leaderfoot
  •     Drygrange Old Bridge, Leaderfoot
  •     Leaderfoot Viaduct
•     Leaderfoot to   Walkerburn
  •     Gattonside Suspension Bridge
  •     Melrose Bridge
  •     Redbridge Viaduct, Tweedbank
  •     Galafoot Bridge, Galashiels
  •     New A7 Tweed Bridge
  •     Tweed Bridge, Sunderland Hall
  •     Yair Bridge
  •     Low Peel Bridge
  •     Walkerburn Bridge
•     Walkerburn to   Peebles
  •     Innerleithen Railway Bridge
  •     Tweed Bridge, Innerleithen
  •      Cardrona Bridge
  •     Cardrona Railway Bridge
  •     Kailzie Bridge
  •     Priorsford Footbridge, Peebles
  •     Tweed Bridge, Peebles
  •     Fotheringham Footbridge, Peebles
  •     Neidpath Viaduct
•     Peebles to Patervan
  •     Manor Bridge
  •     Lyne Footbridge
  •     Stobo Bridge
  •     Dawyck Mill Bridge
  •     Crownhead Bridge
  •     Merlindale Bridge, Drumelzier
  •     Easter Stanhope Bridge
  •     Patervan Bridge
•     Patervan to Tweed   Source
  •     Polmood Bridge
  •     Hearthstane Bridge
  •     Glenrusco Pipe Bridge
  •     Carlow's Bridge, Tweedsmuir
  •     Hawkshaw Bridge
  •     Grange Hill Bridge
  •     Fingland Bridge
  •     Tweedshaws Bridge
  •     Tweed Source
•     Former Bridges and   Fords
•     Reference
•     Links
•     Bridges On The Tyne
•     Bridges on the   Derwent
•     Bridges on the Tees
•     Bridges on the   Coquet
•     Bridges on the   Wansbeck
•     Bridges on the Blyth
•     Bridges on the Aln
•     Bridges on the Wear

COLDSTREAM BRIDGE

"Small town which proably began as a settlement next to the Cistercian nunnery beside a ford across the River Tweed which had been founded by Gospatrick, Earl of Dunbar, in the mid C12."

The Buildings Of Scotland, Borders. Kitty Cruft, John Dunbar and Richard Fawcett. 2006.

This is one of the Tweed's finest bridges, located at the bottom of a hill from Coldstream on the A697 and leading to the Northumberland village of Cornhill-on-Tweed. The river is fairly wide here and thickly wooded. The bridge was designed by John Smeaton for the Tweed Bridge Trustees and the engineer was Robert Reid on whose design Smeaton partly based his own. It cost £6000. Smeaton also designed the bridge at Hexham in Northumberland.

The Royal Tweed Bridge at Berwick could not take abnormal loads and so Coldstream Bridge was used instead. The bridge was strengthened and cantilevered footpaths added in 1961. Meantime a two-way temporary bridge was built upstream, which rested on the piers of the original bridge. A weir or cauld exists downstream to prevent scouring of the river bed and there is also a fish pass. There are plaques on either side of the bridge; that on the east side gives details of the builders and on the west is one stating that Robert Burns crossed the bridge in May 1787 to enter England for the first time. Category A Listed.

Coldstream is a small town which developed in the 18th century where the Tweed was once forded.

 Coldstream Bridge