•     Introduction
•     North Seaton to   Morpeth
  •     North Seaton Bridge
  •     North Seaton Railway Bridge    (The Black Bridge)
  •     Stakeford Bridge
  •     Sheepwash Bridge
  •     Bothal Footbridge
  •     Bothal Mill Bridge
  •     Pegswood Railway Viaduct
  •     Morpeth East Footbridge
  •     Stobsford Footbridge
  •      Morpeth Bridge
•     Morpeth to Mitford
  •     Chantry Footbridge
  •     Elliott Footbridge
  •     Oldgate Bridge
  •     Stepping Stones
  •     Skinnery Footbridge
  •     Lowford Bridge
  •     Highford Bridge
  •     Highford Pipe Bridge
  •     Mitford A1 Bridge
  •     Mitford Bridge
  •     Mitford Footbridge
•     Mitford to   Middleton
  •     Rivergreen Footbridge
  •     Meldon Bridge
  •     Mill House Bridge
  •     Meldon Park Footbridge
  •     Broom House Footbridge
  •     Howlett Hall Footbridge
  •      Low Angerton Bridge
  •     Low Angerton Railway Bridge
  •     Highlaws Footbridge
  •     Middleton Mill Footbridge
  •     Middleton Bridge
•     Middleton to   Wansbeck Source
  •     Scarlett Hall Bridge
  •     Barn Flatt Stepping Stones
  •     Wallington Bridge
  •     Dean House Footbridge
  •     Kirkwhelpington Bridge
  •     Kirkwhelpington Footbridge
  •     Kirkwhelpington A696 Bridge
  •     Kirkwhelpington Farm Bridge
  •     Sweethope Loughs
  •     Sweethope Loughs Road Bridge
•     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 Blyth
•     Bridges on the Aln
•     Bridges on the Wear
•     Bridges on the Tweed

RIVERGREEN MILL FOOTBRIDGE

A footbridge on an isolated stretch of the Wansbeck. It is reached down a minor road going north from the Mitford to Meldon road. A grassed area, with some farm buildings and a house are all that is to be found in this very secluded spot. Across the river a track leads uphill to the B6343 road coming west from Mitford.

Once the only means of crossing was by a wire rope bridge (just downstream of the footbridge) tied to trees on either bank, a hazardous crossing at the best of times, with feet on the lower rope and hands on the upper. In winter with a hard frost it must have been terrifying, and yet schoolchildren used to cross this way to get to the north side to catch the school bus for Morpeth. The Council built the footbridge in the 1960s but then decided to re-route the bus the long way round to pick up children on the south side of the Wansbeck. The bridge is still in use by walkers. Apparently a women was once taken ill while using the wire rope bridge to cross and people have fallen into the river while crossing.

 Rivergreen Mill Footbridge