Find Places To Visit In The North

An impressive castle perched on the edge of steep cliffs overlooking the Firth of Fourth near North Berwick.

St Andrew’s Old Church in Upleatham is a small historic church in North Yorkshire, known for its Norman architecture and quiet, rural setting.

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.

Scone Old Church is an ancient kirk thought to have been originally built in 1286 in the village of Old Scone.

The Largo Law Trig Point sits on an ancient volcano (290m) near Upper Largo, Fife.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

The Lochnagar trig point is the highest of the White Mounth Munros (1155m) near Ballater, Aberdeenshire.

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.

Acoustic sound mirror built in 1916 to detect German airships during WW1.

Lifesize Durham Light Infantry soldier atop a plinth with his rifle.

A Grade I listed building with origins dating back to the 7th century.

The Whitekirk Hill trig point sits on a hill (74m) near North Berwick.

A collection of twelve almshouses designed by Norman Shaw for Lord Armstrong to house his retired workers in Rothbury.

Picturesque waterfall in the heart of Galloway Forest.

An obelisk on Whita Hill for John Malcolm, one of Langholm's most accomplished naval officers.

A Medieval wayside cross.

An arresting piece of steel art by Stanson Art (Ron Lawson) and Mark Burns Cassell commemorating the coal industry in the area.

A fascinating jigsaw of a church built in the 12th & 13th centuries, restored in the 15th century and again in the 19th century.

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

Two weathered rock formations representing a priest and his clerk on the banks of Cartington Hill in Rothbury.

Spire which once linked two chapels in Amble East Cemetery.

A former gentleman’s Georgian residence and now a museum in a park nestled along the river Tees.

Guided tours of a rewilding project on the Hepple Estate with links to Hepple Gin.

The Skid Hill trig point sits on the edge of a quarry (186m) near Haddington.

Over six hundred years of stones crossing the Coquet, connecting the route of the old corn road from Hexham to Alnmouth.

19th century church built by the Salvin family.

A tower constructed in 1897 to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in Dallowgill, North Yorkshire.

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

An urban gallery displaying the work of 6 artists based on the history of the area.