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A picturesque ruined Church that replaced St Andrew's Auld Kirk after it collapsed into the harbour.

A grade II drainage portal with a rustic tally house which was used to explore and drain ground in Allendale for mining.

The UK's first local nature reserve, established in 1952.

A beautifully positioned ruinous sandstone castle, overlooking the Firth of Fourth in East Wemyss, near Kirkaldy in Scotland.

The remains of one of the first artillery defence castles, overlooking the Firth of Fourth near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Nine prehistoric caves containing Pictish carvings and Dovecots in East Wemyss, Kirkcaldy.

A tiny place of worship, hidden away, with a hefty nine hundred year history and notable Norman architectural features.

Not one, but two stone circles a short walk from each other next to the River Esk.

The remains of St Andrew's Kirk, dating from around the 1100s and with links to the North Berwick Witch Trials.

The only museum dedicated to the history of science fiction in the UK with lots of amazing memorabilia on show.

A towering stone cross commemorating the life of The Venerable Bede, on Roker seafront.

Doocot built in the 16th century, which once held over 500 birds.

A ruined house in the Scots Baronial style that is part of the Seacliff Estate.

This former prestigious rectory is one of the oldest domestic houses in England and is haunted!

A spectacular medieval ruin, in Muggleswick near Consett, built during the mid 1200s which was home to a farm, a chapel, a grange and a dairy, which belonged to the Prior of Durham.

Quirky water mill maintained by National Trust for Scotland.

A memorial to the mining past depicting a miner with a pickaxe, working in a narrow seam.

A private beach to the east of North Berwick with views to Bass Rock.

The tallest standing stone in the UK reaching a whopping 7.6 metres located in All Saints Church graveyard in Rudston.

An old measuring device in the heart of the village of Stenton.

A beautiful little waterfall located at the bottom of Green Law hill in the Cheviots.

Five silvery steel girders piercing the promontory at St Peter's in Sunderland and growing into the form of a cormorant taking to the sky.

A beautiful beach with strange geology and fossils.

A gas-fired beacon installed for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.

Observation towers used during WW2 for ground attack training.

A 17th-century packhorse bridge over the River Esk that comes with it's own love story!

A bronze cast blackfaced ram atop the pink corncockle stone blocks of a Victorian drinking fountain in Moffat.

A cave where Robert the Bruce is said to have hidden and may have met a spider.

An Edwardian Baroque-styled multi-purpose building feature artworks.

A burial vault for John Pringle, built from the rubble of a hospital, church and friary known as The House of the Holy Trinity, with great views out over Southern Scotland.

Two gigantic sculptures of Clydesdale horse heads paying tribute to Scotland’s heavy horse heritage.

Impressive lime kilns hidden away in woodland near Christon Bank.

A waterfall and Cave on the Bowlees Beck.

A huge miner’s helmet and cap lamp hung on a peg rack created by Father and son Ray and Sam Lonsdale in homage to the area's mining heritage.

A castellated folly on the edge of Kinnoull Hill above Perth.

17 street murals around Spennymoor and a case of ‘there is more to these than meets the eye’.

Tower set in the beautiful Cumbrian countryside, part of an old parish church.

The only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal.

A grand library ornamented in wood dating to the 17th century with the scent of bibliosmia and a museum with skulls, weapons, and finds from local excavations.

The Arthur's Seat trig point sits on a hill (251m) in Edinburgh.

Two waterfalls on the River Tees within the North Pennine AONB.

Public gardens with sunken trees, an Italian rock in the fountain, and the stunning backdrop of a former 18th-century rectory.

A castle on the south back of Castle Loch near Lockerbie.

A castle on the banks of Loch Doon in East Ayrshire thought to have been built by Robert the Bruce.

Ruined lime kilns on the coastal path near Budle Bay.

A well connected to a freshwater spring, developed by Allen Valley philanthropist Issac Holden to improve the quality of drinking water for the people of his community in Allendale.

Seven stainless steel collier brigs, setting sail in the remains of an old dry dock by the river in South Shields.

A magnificent pineapple-topped folly located in Dunmore Park near Falkirk.

A 15th Century Gatehouse to Wetheral Priory, which is all that remains of the complex following the Dissolution of the Monastaries.

Four mural sites depicting the cultural history of Houghton le Spring, created by local artists.

A hidden away old marker stone in the wilds of Coquetdale delineating the boundary between Harbottle and Hepple.

16th century tower built for Alexander Hannay, and still owned by the family today.

The remains of an Iron Age Hillfort sitting on a little spur of Clennell Hill near Alwinton.

A 16th Century Church with links to the now demolished Wetheral Priory.

A new social history museum adjacent to a grand Georgian manor house telling the history of the area.

An imposing church that can be seen for miles at Hartlepool Headland.

Dating from the late 12th century, St Michael and All Angels' Church is the parish church of Houghton-le-Spring and contains the tomb of Bernard Gilpin.

An art gallery located in the former Christ Church in Hartlepool.

An enchanting gatehouse and remains of a Medieval almshouse and hospital on an elbow of the River Wear in Durham.

A precariously placed lime kiln pit near Cocklawburn beach.

A driftwood sculpture of a boat situated on the banks of the River Tweed in Berwick-upon-Tweed.

A 14th Century castle that now lies in ruins.

A nature reserve which was an old mining area with remains of a monolithic winding engine house.

1,400 acre wetland site with mudflats, pools and reedbeds supporting thousands of birds.

Historic 18th Century Grade II Listed Building and Grounds now used as a Registry Office with space for ceremonies and on-site accommodation, whilst the basement includes the remains of a Cold War Nuclear Bunker.

A 50m high memorial in Williamson Park commissioned by Lord Ashton in memory of his second wife.

A Miner kneeling testing the air with his safety lamp, by Ray Lonsdale.

A sculpture of a Monkey based on a local legend.

A Church without parish dedicated to the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket

A memorial dedicated to six covenanters killed for their beliefs.

Attractive murals back to back on a brick wall in a former cemetery now a small park in Durham.

A group of nine cairns sitting on the aptly named Nine Standards Rigg just east of Kirby Stephen.

An RSPB Nature Reserve in Dumfries and Galloway, comprising Ancient Woodland, Rivers, Moorland, Grassland and Scrub habitats.

Figure of newspaper cartoon character Andy Capp cast in bronze.

A Corten Steel sculpture by Ray Lonsdale to honour the Herring Girls.

Park alongside the River Wear with views of Lumley Castle.

The Rubers Law trig point sits on a hill in Denholm (424m) near Hawick.

The remains of a chapel founded by St Ebba.

Based in Cumbria, Carlisle Castle that had the most sieges and also the last siege in Great Britain.

The Romaldkirk Moor trig point sits on moorland (410m) near Middleton-in-Teesdale.

The base of a medieval cross, sitting in an elevated position on the western edge of Dere Street on the Otterburn Ranges.

A former Royal Air Force site with lots of planes and ghosts.

The tide stone was a 1783 stone marker denoting the tidal limit of the river Tyne before it moved further upstream to Wylam.

A well-kept park with Victorian and Edwardian Features, modern works such as spiders and mosaics, plus the poignant ‘Heroism of the Silent Gun’ Boer War memorial.

A beauty of a bridge, old and packhorsey, with some chunky cutwaters and lovely views up and down the rivers Wear and Browney where they confluence.

A sentry box that once housed AA patrolmen and then a telephone to aid you should your car breakdown.

12th century abbey dedicated to St Andrew, in the heart of Hexham.

A sculpture dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the Montagu View Pit Disaster.

A hearse house hidden in the beautiful Allen Valley which was funded through the philanthropy of local travelling tea seller, Isaac Holden.

An 18th-century commemorative tower built by the MacDuff family, former landowners of the nearby Bonhard House.

Abandoned farm buildings built around 1851.

A large-scale Miners Lamp to honour the Bowburn Colliery and the wider Durham coalfields.

The remains of a gatehouse that lead to an Augustinian Priory Church.

A site specific art installation designed by sculptor William Pye for Seaham Hall.

A unique fortress style house in Newcastle's West End that was won as a prize in a 1920's raffle.

An un-chiselable bit of Hadrian's Wall, near Walwick, where the Romans may have run out of might.

Long Meg and Her Daughters are a series of curious Neolithic standing stones forming a circle on a hillside in the western foothills of the Pennines.

A medieval dovecote in the middle of a bunch of houses with a dove's eye view of the sea.

Nineteen russet arches span the Tweed at Melrose. The Leaderfoot is a striking landmark of Victorian engineering in the Borders.

A memorial drinking fountain, dedicated to the memory of the 3rd Earl Ravensworth in Whittingham.