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A restored orangery and the brainchild of The Duchess of Buccleugh, in the grounds of Dalkeith Palace.

A tiny dwelling standing on a bridge straddling the Stock Beck in Ambleside.

A pair of controversial horned, helmeted and shield wielding Vikings in Jarrow Town Centre.

A human home owned by a sculptor who has carved avian abodes in stone for the sparrows sharing his home on Pier Road in Berwick.

A curious cave with links back to the Mesolithic period on the shores of Loch Caolisport.

A three hundred year old beehive doocot near Aberlady Bay.

An octagonal Victorian folly built in 1835 for George Head Head of Rickerby Hall, possibly used as a dovecote.

Fields as far as the eye can see of firework bright Dahlia and Chrysanthemums which burst into bloom every autumn, close to Hadrian's Wall.

A late medieval dovecote, just hiding off the A1 near Belford, first documented in 1626, which is grade II and on the National Heritage List for England.

A Romano British stone, thought to be from the 2nd or 3rd century, only discovered in the 1970s when the river swelled and revealed his cheery disposition at Waters Meet near Acomb.

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

A sculpture by artist, Christine Hill, erected in 1991 as 'a reminder that the rhino, one of the world's great animals, is threatened with extinction by the greed of mankind'.

A ruined shell of an ancient kirk, teetering on the cliffs at Old Cambus, Cockburnspath.

A life saving barometer swallowed up in the body of a monument to the fishermen of Dunbar.

A steel sculpture made from hundreds of interwoven leaves honouring 81 residents of Prestonpans who were executed for witchcraft.

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 16th century wellhead with conical roof, and 14th century finial borrowed from the Old Parish Church.

A bronze cast statue of the remarkable war-time bear who lived and travelled with Polish soldiers, and ended his days living in the Scottish Border town of Duns, before retiring to Edinburgh Zoo.

A six foot stone hat tip to the efforts and energies of the women who kept the herring industry afloat in Dunbar.

A sculpture by Nigel Boonham to commemorate the bold boys of West Auckland, a team made up of coal miners, who won the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy competition in Turin in 1909.

Sentius Tectonicus is an eight and a half feet-high weathered steel sculpture of a Roman centurion soldier marking the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.

Halton Castle is a picturesque, privately owned pele tower close to Hadrian's Wall and the village of Corbridge in Northumberland.

An old brick built seaman's chapel on Newcastle Quayside, built by Thomas Oliver Junior and opened in 1877.

A 1956 style AA sentry box that would have been a sight of safety for many post war drivers until its closure in 2002.

A symbolic replica of a bell from the tower of Brinkburn Priory which reflects the history and heritage of the monks at the monastery.

Memorial statue to commemorate the life of English radical Liberal politician, industrialist, activist and journalist standing tall at the junction of Westgate Road and Fenkle Street in Newcastle.

A small square enclosure, which was used to keep the village's escaped animals in during the 1800s and was managed by the Osmotherley Pinder.

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.

A sculpture sitting on the gable end of a house in Selkirk commemorating the history and heritage of the shoemaking industry in this small Scottish town.

A hidden away well to the west of Branxton Village, inscribed with a quotation from Sir Walter Scott's poem 'Marmion', about a knight mortally wounded at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 who drinks from the spring.

The Teaching is a sculpture in limestone by David Edwick, reflecting the link between learning and the local children of Ponteland, sitting on the site of the original Coates Endowed School.

A bijoux phone box visitor centre in Branxton, dedicated to the history of the battle of Flodden Field.

A sculpture of the ingenious life saving lamp originally designed by George Stephenson, favoured by North East miners, sitting pretty opposite Lidl in Westmoor.

One of the best examples of an unaltered Quaker Meeting House in the North East, nestled in a sparsely populated pocket of land south of Hadrian's Wall.

A wishing well in a water meadow near Wooler where bent pins were dropped for wishes.

A unique herd of wild white cattle, living on the Chillingham Estate for hundreds of years and rarer than pandas.

A beautiful blue bronze statue of an oversized tern by Geoffrey Dashwood, resting by the sea in North Berwick.

A pint sized place of worship overlooking the Tyne Valley and the baptismal church of British landscape artist John Martin.

The base and part of the shaft of an old wayside marker on the old Roman Stanegate Road.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A memorial fountain dedicated to JJ Roddam, built by the people of Stanhope to commemorate his contribution to the community.

The Glassonby Stone Circle, was the site of a 1900s excavation of remains of burnt bones, a Bronze Age collared urn and a mysterious blue faience bead.

A smart 1700s bridge, ahead of its time, sat tight on the banks of the Tweed.

The smallest place of sanctuary, rolling out of West Woodburn, between the road and the river, lies the church of St Cuthbert's, Corsenside.

A bread oven introduced in 1310 to the people of Corbridge by King John and used for over 500 years.

The Kelpie maquettes in Ardrishaig, at three meters tall are the 1/10 scale prototypes for the real McCoy Kelpies by Andy Scott stabled in Falkirk.

A series of murals mounted on the walls of an old air raid shelter just underneath the Black Gate depicting familiar scenes from the city’s history.

A sculpture at the source of the River Rede of a feral Northumberland goat, living its leaping life just above the peeping eye of Catcleugh Reservoir.

A Grade II, early 19th century dovecote with the square tower loosely modelled on the tower of The Church of St Andrew in Hartburn.

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 square towered dovecote, built in the 18th century of brick, with stepped cogged cornicing at the eaves and a pyramidal pan tiled roof.

A rare and significant medieval ruin, which served as the first school in Alnwick.

A space age rocket looking communication mast, bound for Mars from the pines of Henshaw Common!

A Celtic cross, commemorating the lives of James and Charles Radcliffe, Earls of Derwentwater, Viscounts Langley.

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

Located on the site of an ancient village cross at Longhoughton, it was on the route of the pilgrimage from the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to Durham.

A heart filled horseshoe horse, surveying the summer sunshine and the gentle tilts and curves of the upland Buteland view near Bellingham.

A hidden away home to The Kerr clan of Lothian, Ferniehirst Castle is a rarely open gem nestled in the Borders.

A historical sliver in pinky Penrith sandstone, Kirkoswald Castle was built to impress and defend.

A country house near Christon Bank and home to a past Prime Minister, and the longest serving Foreign Secretary.

One of a handful of hearse houses left in the UK with a little 'fun for free' museum.

A proud standing Percy lion atop a grandiose gateway to the old Ladykirk House in Upsettlington.

The first pier on the North East Coast and last pier in Yorkshire.

A tumble down 16th century pele tower in the Borders, built with the biggest cyclopean stones, and only sheep for neighbours.

Saltburn is home to the oldest water-balanced funicular in the UK and the second oldest in the whole wide world! A cliff lift with the most sensational view of the sea and sand below.

A beautiful church filled with art, history and culture in the fork of the road up to the College Valley.

A piece of public art providing seating, shelter and a belta view over North Tyne Valley.

A cool rural wicker man, keeping an eye on any bad lads on the border of Northumberland and Durham.

An ancient corn mill, nestled in the bend of the River Till, sitting between Ford and Etal.

Sitting on a blowy corner of the Northumberland National Park, is Causeway House, Northumberland's only heather thatched cottage. With a history of hidden lucky roof charms and close to a Roman Milecastle.

The Ridsdale Iron Works, castle-like ruin in, was the point of manufacture of pig steel used in the construction of Newcastle's High Level Bridge.

An 18th Century engine house near Settlingstones, built to contain a 70” Cornish Condensing Engine and the discovery place of the mega mineral Witherite

A 14-century church and all-round home to saints, tall tales, bones of Border Rievers and men of battle.

A three-storied tower-house built as a hunting lodge then later extended and used as a farmhouse and students' hostel.