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Union Bridge.
It's only 6 miles from Berwick before the route stumbles onto the impressive Union Bridge, the River Tweed offering a natural divide between Scotland and England. It's a suspension bridge, built in 1820 by a Captain Samuel Brown.
After its building it was contemporarily described:
"The new iron suspension-bridge over the Tweed at this point is one of the greatest acquisitions the country possesses, and at the same time one of the finest specimens in existence of modern invention employed as a medium of social and commercial intercourse. The daily inconvenience - besides serious accidents and loss of life - to which the inhabitants have been so long subjected has thus been completely remedied; it admits two carriages abreast, affords the usual accommodation for foot passengers, and has proved of incalculable benefit to the public".
And continues to do so today
