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This exhilarating 41/2 mile / 7km Contact details: walk gives spectacular views of the River Tyne, both from the Traveline bridges which span the river and Tel: 0870 608 2608 from the riverbanks themselves. www.traveline.org.uk The route can be picked up at Hadrian's Wall Information Line any point and can be followed Tel: 01434 322002 in either direction. www.hadrians-wall.org The walk is within easy reach of Newcastle Tourist the Central Station and Metro Information Centre station. Both sides of the river Tel: 0191 2778000 are well served by buses. To give feedback on these & Several parking areas are other strategic routes in and indicated on the map, but car around Newcastle, parking in the central areas can please contact: be limited and thus the use of public transport is John Robertson, recommended. Newcastle City Council Planning & Transportation Tel: 0191 232 8520

Bridging the Tyne There were two bridges before Developing Quaysides bars, restaurants and public art. the present Redheugh Bridge .A Across the river, Gateshead The seven bridges which When the Romans first arrived at The first was built in 1870 which Quays will accommodate not currently span the River Tyne the Tyne they would have found only the Millennium Bridge, but between Newcastle and collapsed during a storm in a broader river than today, 1879. The second Redheugh also the BALTIC - The Centre for Gateshead have had some flowing in a steep valley and Contemporary Art and The Sage famous predecessors. Bridge was built in 1901. In 1983 fringed with marshy ground. the third and current Redheugh Gateshead Music Centre. The Roman bridge was the first bridge was built. In the Middle Ages the riverbank With the Quayside offering major bridge over the Tyne at on the northern side was fascinating architecture, cultural The Gateshead Millennium Newcastle and was built by the consolidated and some of the attractions and nightlife it’s not Roman Emperor Titus Aelius Bridge G is the world’s first marshy margins were reclaimed. surprising that Newcastle and Hadrianus. ‘Pons Aelius’ was rotating bridge. Designed by This led to the construction of Gateshead are putting in a joint also the name of the fort built by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the buildings along The Close and bid to become the European Hadrian on the Newcastle side of pedestrian and cycle bridge Sandgate, the heart of Medieval Capital of Culture 2008. the river which guarded the operates like a giant blinking Newcastle. Eventually the Town bridge. The bridge was built in eye. Construction began in May Wall was built through here, 120AD and was destroyed by 1999, and by November 2000 parallel to the river. fire in 1248. the completed bridge was The major expansion of It was replaced in the 12th transported by one of the Newcastle’s Quayside came in century by the medieval bridge world’s largest floating cranes the 18th and 19th centuries as E , which had towers and (Asian Hercules II) to it’s final the shipping trade developed. buildings along its length. This location. The bridge was opened Eventually the riverfront between was partly destroyed by floods in to the public in September 2001. Sandgate and the Ouseburn was the 18th century and was lined with wharves and sheds. replaced by the Georgian By 1900 the Gateshead riverside Bridge. This elegant stone- was similarly crowded with arched bridge would probably factories and warehouses. have still existed to this day but for the need for larger ships to The late 20th century saw the pass to and from the upper decline of all these former reaches of the Tyne. Thus in riverside industries, but now a Picture: Ad Infinitum 1876 this was replaced by the new era of quayside The Blacksmith’s Needle has Swing Bridge E which could regeneration is transforming six sections representing five open to allow the passage of both sides of the river. human senses, and the ‘sixth sense’. It is one of many artworks large ships. Newcastle Quayside is now Picture: Ad Infinitum on Newcastle’s Quayside. home to stylish hotels, designer

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