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Corbridge is a handsome stone market town in the Tyne Valley, five miles east of Hexham, built on the north bank of the Tyne above the Roman supply base of Corstopitum — one of the most important military sites on Hadrian's Wall. The town has one of the most attractive main streets in Northumberland, lined with sandstone Georgian and Victorian buildings, a twelfth-century fortified vicar's pele tower and a fine medieval bridge. The Tyne Valley here is broad and sheltered, with sycamore and hawthorn on the river terraces, white clover and bird's-foot trefoil on the alluvial hay meadows between Corbridge and Riding Mill, and dense bramble in the riverside scrub. The North Tyne tributaries and Wheelbirks parkland add lime, beech and sweet chestnut; the moorland above Corbridge towards Slaley Forest contributes heather on the upper ridges; and ivy on old sandstone walls closes the year.

The northern moors — Simonside, Redesdale, the Cheviots — carry some of the heaviest ling heather flows in England, with colonies migrated in from as far as the Tyne Valley and beyond. Bell heather opens the late-summer flow; ling finishes it. Sycamore and hawthorn are the dominant hedgerow spring flows. Coastal dune plants at Lindisfarne and Druridge add unusual seasoning. Rosebay willowherb flushes the post-industrial Tyne corridor, and ivy on dark sandstone walls closes the year.