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Fountains and water troughs throughout Alnwick that were once used to provide clean water.

A heavily modified ruin of an early 13th century castle held by the powerful Hume family.

The most spectacular gorge with cascades and waterfalls in the whole of Northumberland if not the UK!

A modern day folly set in the Lilburn Tower estate next to the Hurl Stone.

A 4m standing stone, most likely a headless cross, maybe thrown there by giants or the devil.

A 13th century priory twixt manor house that was a retirement home and also a retreat for the Durham Monks.

A country manor house with beautiful gardens, an observatory, old church and ruined pele tower.

The remaining gatehouse from Alnwick Abbey, built in the 12th century.

A 15th century gatehouse that was part of the Alnwick old town walls.

Originally part of the town's medieval defences, this tower is now a luxury holiday cottage.

A 19th century fountain dedicated to Bryan Adamson, a lieutenant of the HMS Wasp that was lost at sea.

An obelisk commerating playwright and poet James Thomson, who also penned the words to Rule, Britannia.

Two chimneys remaining from the Sikehead mine set on Ramshaw Moors

A ruined lime kiln sitting between Cateran Hole and Ros Castle in the Alnwick area.

The smallest museum in Northumberland (if not the world!!) with pictures, memorabilia and trinkets about boating life in Alnmouth.

A castelled octagonal building in Seaton Sluice that was once a tax office, harbour master house and now a gallery.

The trig point sitting on top of Helvellyn (950m).

A column in memory of James Evelyn's parents, moved from Felbridge up to Lemmington, Northumberland.

Beautiful ruins of small monastery founded by White Canons set above a bend in the River Tees near Barnard Castle.

The ruins of an old lead and fluorspar mine in the Pennines with the headframe and some buildings still visible.

A tunnel running from the Town Moor to the Ouseburn that was used to transport coal and then became an air raid shelter.

A concrete water tower located next to Northgate Hospital in Morpeth.

An obelisk marking the centenary of the Glorious Revolution by William the Orange.

A cave in a crater up on the moorland between Eglingham and Ros Castle.

Three statues sowing the different aspects of a working man of Newcastle.

A ruin of a folly shaped like a shepherd's hut on the Alnwick moors.

An ingeniously preserved lime kiln sitting on the wonderfully named Slag Hill.

Ruins of the Church of the Holy Cross that is nearly 900 years old.

A beautiful house and gardens for the friars of The Society of St Francis in the North East.

A six storey lookout tower used to assist gun turrets in both World War 1 and 2.

A radome housing an RAF radar at Brizlee Wood sitting on top of Alnwick Moor.

A traditional Victorian Park packed with features sitting between Tynemouth and North Shields.

A natural tidal pool in Whitley Bay that was expanded for swimmers in the 19th century.

A statue of Queen Victoria in St Nicholas' Square to commemorate 500 years of Shrievalty.

A puppet of the Iron Man that was used in the musical of the same name by The Who guitarist Pete Townshend.

A pele tower that used to be part of the vicarage for the adjoining St James Church.

One of the remaining arches carrying a two mile horizontal chimney as part of a flue system.

A ruined bastle which may not have been a bastle after all.

A natural limestone bridge on the Pennine Way.

A mini version of the Angel Of The North standing in a field near Hexham.

At 180m it is the longest waterfall in the UK and is fed from Cow Green Reservoir.

A hillfort in Colwell near Swinburne with a large outcrop of whinstone on the north face.

A preacher's cross erected by monks from Lindisfarne.

A severely ruined 15th century tower in Little Swinburne.

A beautiful little barn used to collect tithes in the middle ages.

A beautiful tower sitting atop the crag of Lady Hill near Kelso.

A spacecraft-like old concrete water tower, standing in the fields near Amble.

A ruined 18th century church currently being transformed by the local residents into another place for calm and reflection.

A 19th century lime kiln near the Wannie Line.

A fortified farmhouse (Bastle) near Harbottle.

A ruined shepherd's hut in the moors near Old Bewick set amongst crags and cairns.

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

A ruined stable block of the once Cresswell Hall.

A very well hidden stone viaduct spanning the River Blyth at Plessey Woods for the East Coast Main Line.

A lime kiln set in a lovely rolling Hobbiton area.

Stepping stones over Ladyburn Lake in Druridge Bay Country Park.

Twenty beautifully decorated Morph figures to find in North Tyneside.

Two obelisk navigation beacons that when lined up would direct you into Holy Island harbour.

A large rock sitting in Collywell Bay at Seaton Sluice that a local once grew things on.

An old water tower from Broomhill Colliery that was sold at auction to be a house.

A sculpture of three drill heads in Weetslade Country Park.

A slightly ruined lime kiln in Hepple in between Rothbury and Elsdon.

A ruined 15th century tower house near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders.

A three draw arch lime kiln in Otterburn.

A small square reservoir just off the coast of Blyth.

Probably the largest lime kiln in Northumberland sitting next to Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island.

The building used to house the rocket apparatus for saving crews from stranded ships near Blyth harbour.

A lime kiln situated on Alnwick Moor, one of 400 that would have been used in Northumberland.

A cave in Hulne Park guarded by a statue of a hermit.

A ruined abbey sitting in a secluded woodland on the banks of the River Tweed.

A 12th century church standing on the site of the original wooden church built by St Aidan in the 7th century.

A ruined fort tower on the opposite side of the harbour to Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island.

A statue of a British infantryman commemorating the end of World War 1.

A castellated farmhouse sitting on the foundations of a 15th century motte and baily castle.

A monument commemorating the Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.

A ruined manor home complex with a tower in Seaham.

A white pyramid daymark on the north east Emmanuel Head of Holy Island.

A small stone building used to store the explosives during the construction of the seahouses pier and harbour.

A beautiful pele tower perched on Minto Crags peaking out of the trees.

Two huge sculptures of 19th century surveyor's instruments standing on freaky feet!

A sculpture called Old King Coal celebrating the area's proud coal mining history.

Statues of the Ironmaster and Coal Miner made from obselete components representing the legacy of the local steelworks.

A small saxon church built on the site of an old 8th century church near Edlingham Castle.

A spectacular woodland planted on crags to the north and south.

A stone cross marking where Malcolm III, King Of Scotland was slain at the Battle Of Alnwick.

The ruined chapel of an old hospital located in Denwick near to Alnwick Castle.

A lovely 2 level waterfall just under a bridge near Edlingham.

A quaint little fishing village set around old fishermen's cottages and spectacular jagged cliffs - Also twinned with New Asgard!

A small and picturesque harbour which used to export salt, coal and bottles.

A pretty church sitting in amazing countryside with breathtaking views in Low Alwinton.

A reconstruction of a gatehouse and buildings on the original foundations of the Roman buildings.

A statue to local heroine Dolly Peel, a smuggler, fighter against the pressgang and eventually nurse.

A spectacular mausoleum for the British soldier Thomas Monteath Douglas.

A ruined castle on the Scottish side of the border built by the 1st Earl of Roxburghe.

A ruined bastle and cottage located in a remote area of Bellingham.

A Grecian style summerhouse on the banks of the River Wear named after a Polish entertainer.

A natural cave modified into a place for swimmers to get changed in the 18th century.

A flat castle-like observatory on Ratcheugh Crag overlooking Alnwick.

Another beauty of a lime kiln situated in Low Alwinton.

A huge rock standing on the beach at Marsden, South Shields that has collapsed into an arch an then to a single rock.