
Corbridge
Sign in to saveAlso known as Corbridge, Northumberland
Corbridge is a village in Northumberland, England, west of Newcastle and east of Hexham. Villages nearby include Halton, Acomb, Aydon and Sandhoe.
Weather now
cached 1495h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Corbridge
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 2,946
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Corbridge, pant in Market Place 099.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Market Place, Corbridge town centre
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Corbridge
- UK place.population
- 3672
- UK place.population_ref
- (2011)
- UK place.region
- North East England
- UK place.shire_county
- Northumberland
- UK place.website
- www.visitcorbridge.co.uk
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Hexham
- UK place.civil_parish
- Corbridge
- UK place.post_town
- CORBRIDGE
- UK place.postcode_district
- NE45
- UK place.postcode_area
- NE
- UK place.dial_code
- 01434
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NY990646
via Wikipedia infobox
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Roman fort and town
- Buildings
- Border warfare
- Governance
- Transport
- Fairs and shows
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Corbridge is a village in Northumberland, England, west of Newcastle and east of Hexham. Villages nearby include Halton, Acomb, Aydon and Sandhoe.
==Etymology== Corbridge was known to the Romans as something like Corstopitum or Coriosopitum, and wooden writing tablets found at the Roman fort of Vindolanda nearby suggest it was probably locally called Coria (meaning a tribal centre). According to Bethany Fox, the early attestations of the English name Corbridge "show variation between Cor- and Col-, as in the earliest two forms, Corebricg and Colebruge, and there has been extensive debate about what its etymology may be. Some relationship with the Roman name Corstopitum seems clear, however".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Corbridge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (10)
On the map
3 mapped locations