Gateway to bridge across River Coquet at Warkworth, Northumberland
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Gateway to bridge across River Coquet at Warkworth, Northumberland
Image: © Chris Morgan Taken: 6 Oct 2008
As recently as the 1950s all coastal traffic heading north out of Warkworth had to pass through this arch and across the bridge. As a child I loved watching trucks squeeze through - there were many scrapes in the rock! The old bridge is no wider. Traffic lights caused lengthy delays at this bottleneck. Today it's a pathway and I bet few realise how it was not so long ago.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.350191
Longitude
-1.609666