Lemington Bridge

Lemington Bridge was built in 2001 and is not strictly speaking on the River Tyne but on a by-passed loop of the river known as the Lemington Gut. Formerly the main channel of the Tyne which took a sharp bend it was cut across in about 1880 to straighten out the river and shorten it by three quarters of a mile giving deeper water at nearby Blaydon and leaving the Gut as a backwater.