Find Landmarks In The North

A huge monument, built in 1857 to commemorate Onesiphorus Tyndall-Bruce, a significant figure in the area.

A large tower shaped landmark that sits on the edge of a golf course overlooking the firth of forth.

12th century cross, possibly a Christianised monolith.

A steel sculpture in the shape of a giant pickaxe in Jarrow, created as a memorial to the town’s mining heritage and the communities who worked in the pits.

A 19th Century Boundary Stone on Ilkley Moor.

A discreet sandstone monolith in South Gosforth that notes the line of the Ninety Fathom Dyke and the distance from the Gosforth Colliery Shaft.

Two unconnected historical finds in a snug corner of Lawe Top. They are a pair of brick built beacons, and two replica Russian cannons captured from the Crimean War (1853-1856).

A water pump and stone trough, with nearby set of medieval stocks.

Former market cross dating back to the 18th century.

A 60 foot tall landmark maypole on the village green in Ovington, County Durham with an echo of a maypole sculpture in its shadow.

A garden to look like a bombed house, as a memorial to the 1914 coastal attack.

The jaw bones of a whale as a reminder of the whaling industry of Whitby.

An ancient market cross, the base dating from Medieval times, and a curious stone table once used as a pulpit for John Wesley to preach from.

On the headland at Skateraw stands a cairn topped by a cross, a memorial to the boys of St Giles' (later Cannongate Boys Club).

Ancient Viking Cross dated between 865 and 950 in the graveyard of St Wilfrid's Church.

A monument erected for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

A set of sandstone steps used by Monks to display and sell their fish.

The coke ovens are rare remnants of Durham's coal industry, showcasing early coke production methods before their decline by 1880.​

The remains of a coal staithes for the Wearmouth Pit.

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

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

A Medieval wayside cross.

A boulder marking where Marion Lillie, also known as the Ringwoodie Witch, was executed in 1696.

A unintentionally concealed 90 foot tall way marker marking north for astronomers at Durham University one mile south.

An erratic rock, rolled into Newbiggin Bay during the last ice age, transported on ice rafts through glacial waters to sit on the sand by the sea.

A Grade II Listed Ancient waymarker on an old trading route along the County Durham and North Yorkshire border.

The jaw bone of a Right Whale forming an arch, framing the harbour of Seahouses and beyond to the Farnes, with a fishy past!

Scotland's National Book Town in Dumfries and Galloway.

A five tonne Limestone boulder marking the location of the former East Chevington Drift Mine.

Stone commemorating Robert the Bruce's first victory over an English army in 1307.

Stone monument dedicated to two women martyred at Wigtown in 1685.

A monument to where a Richmond man's horse threw him over a cliff and his plan to stay alive.

A monument in Glenfinnan to remember the Jacobite Rising of 1745.

A beacon on a hill just outside Richmond that was supposidly erected for Millennium celebrations.

A remote memorial cairn to Lord Robinson who was instrumental in forming the British Forestry Commission and Kielder Forest.

A sea arch and rock formation that is said to resemble a drinking dinosaur at Flamborough Head.

Remains of part of the original Stockton and Darlington Railway main line, built in 1825.

A number of shipwrecks visible in Amble harbour at low tide.

The remains of a Saxon Cross adjacent to the B6275 which follows the line of the old Roman Road Dere Street.

An ornate clock standing on Whitley Bay promenade, unveiled by Councillor James Hamilton Grant in 1933.

An 18th century market cross that would have been used for proclamations.

A monument to two engineers who died during the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel expansion.

Two Market Crosses in Corbridge.

A 5m high cairn on Padon Hill marking the wedding anniversary of some local notables and to honour the work of a prominent Presbyterian preacher.

An ancient burial ground for a Bronze Age chieftain called Prince Caryn.

The longest surviving section of 'broad wall' on Hadrians Wall.

An 11th century Saxon cross head that marks the focus for the start of the annual Goose Fair in Ovingham.

Brickwork from the Victorian age.

An historic market place in the centre of Stanhope and the location of the Market Cross, a Petrified Tree Stump, the War Memorial and St Thomas Church.

A 2,000 foot long pier built in the 1960's to pipe sea water for the magnesia treatment works.

A distinguished weather radar station that can be seen for miles.

A town with a nature reserve, memorial garden, cemetry and a reconstructed miners pit cage, celebrating the times of mining in Easington Colliery.

The largest timber structure in Europe, built in 1893.

An octagonal folly, once part of the Stella Hall estate in Blaydon.

A plaque marking the site of a gibbet where Michael Curry was chained for murder.

A replica of the gibbet used to display the body of the murderer William Winter.