a Grade II structure it is now only available to pedestrian traffic. The new Haydon Bridge Bypass, opened in 2009, now carries the A69 across the river and railway some half a mile to the west of the village. Railway The village is served by Haydon Bridge railway station on the Tyne Valley line. The line was opened in 1838 by the Newcastle & Carlisle Railway linking Newcastle with Carlisle. The line follows the course of the River Tyne through Northumberland. Passenger services on the Tyne Valley line are operated by Northern. Bus services Arriva and Stagecoach operate bus services jointly (Service 685) between Carlisle and Newcastle, with services passing through the village approximately every hour in each direction. Wright Bros Coaches currently provides a limited service to destinations such as Hexham, Newcastle, Alston, and Nenthead. Tyne Valley Coaches also provide some services to the village usually on school days and only as far as Hexham via Newbrough and Warden. Air Newcastle Airport is situated about from Haydon Bridge and provides daily internal flights to many UK and International destinations. Religious sites The village where the "new" church is and on which the old church at Haydon looks down, was built in 1796. Dedicated to St. Cuthbert, it is said to have been one of the many resting places of the bones of the saint, which the monks carried throughout the northern counties for hundreds of years. Occasionally services are held in the old church in which, oddly enough, the font is made from a Roman altar. There is a great deal of doubt as to when this little church was originally built; if the bones of St. Cuthbert rested there, it must have been in existence before the saint found his last resting place in Durham Cathedral in 995. There is a gruesome legend connected with the old church, given in detail in William Lee's Haydon Bridge and District. It is the old story of the girl who longed for finery which she could not afford. Watching the local tailor making a coat for her master at Altonside Farm, the girl pestered the tailor so much that at length he made a bargain with her. If she would go to the old church at Haydon at midnight and bring back the communion book from the altar, he would make her a coat which would enhance her charms in the