CORBRIDGE, a market town, Northumberland, England; 31m. E. of Hexham, on the north bank of the river Tyne, which is here crossed by a fine seven-arched bridge dating from 1674. Pop. (1921) 2,415. Its name is derived from the small river Cor, a tributary of the Tyne. The Roman station of Corstopitum (also called Corchester) lay half a mile west of Corbridge at the junc tion of the Cor with the Tyne. Excavations have shown the site to have had at first a military importance, but it was later occupied by a civilian population. Corstopitum ceased to exist early in the 5th century, and the site was never again occupied.
About 76o Corbridge became the capital of Northumbria. In 1138 David of Scotland made it a centre of military operations, and it was ravaged by Wallace in 1296, by Bruce in 1312, and by David II. in 1346. It has a square peel-tower and a cruciform church (St. Andrew), partly of pre-Conquest date, but mainly Early English.