The bridge used to carry the A68 road over the River Tyne, but since the opening of the Hexham bypass (A69) the A68 now crosses by the Styford Bridge, 3 miles (5 km) downstream of Corbridge.

[3] In 1298 royal officers went to Corbridge to purchase horseshoes and nails, and the tariff imposed to raise money for upkeep of the medieval bridge included tolls on nails of different kinds, horseshoes, cartwheel-sheaths, griddles, iron cauldrons and vats.

Described in 1306 as the only bridge between Newcastle and Carlisle, it was maintained also as a link between England and Scotland.

[3] So well did the builder of this bridge execute his contract that his was the only one on the Tyne to withstand the Great Flood of 1771.

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