Historic Corbridge

Corbridge had eight ‘Hotels & Public Houses’ listed in the 1827 edition of the Parson & White Directory of Durham and Northumberland and eight ‘Hotels, Inns and Taverns’, although not all the same, named in the 1886 edition of Bulmer’s History, Topography and Directory of Northumberland.

Today there are six surviving…plus two more recent arrivals.

The Angel Inn on Main Street – the oldest with a date of “since before 1569”.

http://www.theangelofcorbridge.com

Autumn 2020

The Black Bull on Middle Street – despite a date of 1755 above a doorway, it only became a public house some time between 1827 and 1886.

https://www.oldenglishinns.co.uk/our-locations/the-black-bull-corbridge

The Blue Bell on Hill Street (formerly Scramblegate) – used to be known as The New Blue Bell.

The Golden Lion on Hill Street (formerly Heron’s Hill) – built in the late 1760s.

http://thegoldenlioncorbridge.co.uk

The Wheatsheaf on Watling Street – it was a farm in the 17th century before becoming a hotel.

http://www.wheatsheafhotelcorbridge.co.uk

The Dyvels on Station Road – formerly known as The Station Hotel it was built in the 1840s after the opening of the railway.

http://thedyvels.co.uk

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In addition the historic building next to St Andrew’s Church in Market Place is now the Pele Tower pub:

Pele Tower Pub

Pubs no longer with us are:

The Boot and Shoe in Front Street which is now a restaurant.

The Golden Fleece (1827) in Princes Street was, presumably, The Beerhouse of 1886 and is now a domestic dwelling.

The New Inn on Main Street is the present day Monks Holme, used as a public house between 1827 and 1890.

The Old Bluebell Inn in Market Place was pulled down in 1890 and replaced by the Tynedale Hotel which, in turn, has closed.

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