The River Coquet rises around Chew Green [Map] from where it flows past Makendon Northumberland [Map], Blindburn [Map], Barrow Burn [Map], Shillmoor [Map], Linshiels [Map], Alwinton [Map], Harbottle Castle [Map], Sharperton [Map], Holystone [Map], Hepple [Map], Thropton [Map], Rothbury [Map], Pauperhaugh [Map], Brinkburn Priory [Map], Weldon Bridge [Map], Felton [Map], Guyzance [Map] before passing under the bridge at Warkworth Bridge [Map] and reaching the North Sea at Amble [Map].

737. Church of St Lawrence [Map] is next to the River Coquet 2.5km from where the river joins the sea at Amber. A wooden church is mentioned in 737AD when Ceolwulf King Northumbria gave Wercewode aka Warkworth, including the church, to the Abbot of Lindisfarne Abbey [Map].

Around 1135 Brinkburn Priory [Map] was founded as an Augustinian priory by William Bertram, Baron of Mitford next to the River Coquet.

Around 1150. The date of the first construction of Warkworth Castle [Map] is somewhat vague being founded by either Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria (age 36) or King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England (age 16) on a motte on a natural mound at the narrowest point of a loop of the River Coquet.

Around 1375. Warkworth Bridge [Map], constructed in the late 14th Century, spans the River Coquet at the bottom of the hill in Warkworth [Map] on which is located Warkworth Castle [Map]. The bridge is a mile from where the River Coquet flows into the North Sea. The bridge measures 43m long between land piers, with an overall length of 61m, by 3.5m wide between the parapet walls. The bridge, built of squared and coursed sandstone, has two segmental ribbed arches, each with a span of 18.4m. Documentary evidence records that John Cook of Newcastle, who died in 1378-9, left 20 marks towards the building of Warkworth Bridge on the condition it was built within two years.

From Corbridge Roman Fort, Northumberland [Map] Dere Street continues north through Hunnum aka Onnum Roman Fort [Map], where it crosses Hadrian's Wall, Little Whittington, Northumberland [Map], Beukley, Northumberland [Map], Great Swinburne, Northumberland [Map], Fourlaws Roman Camp [Map], Habitancum Roman Fort [Map], Blakehope Roman Fort [Map], High Rochester [Map], Featherwood Roman Camps [Map], Chew Green Roman Camps [Map] where it crosses the River Coquet and into Scotland.