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The Susquehanna and Tioga Turnpike; also called the Berwick and Tioga Turnpike, [1] and Susquehanna & Tioga Turnpike connecting via the high ground [a] of tributary valleys Berwick and upstream, Tioga—chartered & incorporated in 1806, the toll road, like many Middle Ages toll roads in Europe was opened initially as an animal power (foot traffic) turnpike in Northeastern Pennsylvania ...
The beach and estate command a strategic position at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, and control of the area has been contested through the ages.The beach and estate were used as a staging post for various raids on nearby Tantallon Castle from the 14th to the 17th century.
Four golf clubs are based at the West Links - the North Berwick Golf Club (founded 1832), Tantallon Golf Club (1853), Bass Rock Golf Club (1873) and the North Berwick Ladies Golf Club (1888). The North Berwick G.C. is the 13th oldest club in the world and only St. Andrews has a club which has continuously played over the same course for longer.
Bicester is one of the UK's best known Tesco-towns, operating five stores in a region with a population of 29,000. Featuring a Tesco superstore on the southern side of town, near the Bicester Village designer outlet, and a further four Tesco Express stores around the general neighbourhood and community areas.
Tantallon Castle is a ruined mid-14th-century fortress, located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of North Berwick, in East Lothian, Scotland. It sits atop a promontory opposite the Bass Rock , looking out onto the Firth of Forth .
The North British Railway obtained an act of Parliament, the North British Railway Act 1844 (7 & 8 Vict. c. lxvi), giving authorisation for its main line from Edinburgh to Berwick (later called Berwick upon Tweed) in 1844, and pressed ahead with constructing it. Equally urgently addressed by the directors, was the capturing of territory and the ...
The bridge is now one way, from east to west. A short distance upstream is the Royal Tweed Bridge, which succeeded the Berwick Bridge as the main road crossing of the Tweed at Berwick when it opened in 1928. [11] In 1984, the A1 River Tweed Bridge opened about a mile to the west of Berwick, carrying the A1 road around the town. [9]
The Royal Tweed Bridge, also known as the New Bridge locally, is a road bridge in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England crossing the River Tweed.It was intended to divert traffic from the 17th century Berwick Bridge, and until the 1980s it formed part of the A1 road, the main route from London to Edinburgh.