Find Places To Visit In Tyne And Wear

A ruined windmill sitting on the highest part of the Cleadon Hills.

A blue stone that has links to the Saxons, the black death, vaccinations and strongman feats!

A combined moated castle and gatehouse with the ruins of a Benedictine priory where early kings of Northumbria were buried.

A unique gun that would disappear into its turret to reload, devised during the Crimean War.

A statue of Queen Victoria by sculptor Alfred Turner in Tynemouth.

A beautiful folly set in the grounds of the Gibside estate which is now a holiday home.

A pair of tunnels under the River Tyne for use by pedestrians and cyclists.

A 15 hectare public park, right in the centre of Newcastle, dating from the 1880s and associated with, and named after two major exhibitions, the Royal Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 and the 1929 North East Coast Exhibition.

A Victorian Public Park on South Shields seafront that is part of a 4km chain of parks.

The Vampire Rabbit is a strange and mysterious “grotesque” that can be found above the door at the rear entrance to the historic Cathedral Buildings, adjacent to Newcastle Cathedral.

A pretty artificial waterfall in Jesmond Dene created by Lord Armstrong.

A ruined watermill dating from back to 1739 in Jesmond Dene.

An old ruined windmill sitting in Armstrong Park.

A small well linked to the nearby St. Mary's Chapel.

A ruined chapel that was once a popular place for pilgrimages.

The banqueting hall where Lord Armstrong would entertain his guests.

A fortified house built by Adam of Jesmond.

Gibside is a 720 acre estate acquired by the Bowes family in 1713.

Built in the 1870s, it was the first lighthouse in the world to be designed and built specifically to use alternating electric current.

A Victorian lighthouse built in 1882, still used for navigational purposes today.

A memorial in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Penshaw Hill owned by the National Trust.

A contemporary sculpture of a metal angel designed by Antony Gormley.

A ruined three storey tower house now mostly covered by trees.

A lighthouse on a small tidal island just north of Whitley Bay. It is linked to the mainland by a short concrete causeway which is submerged at high tide.

This is the trig point for Tunstall Hills (112m) near Sunderland.

This is the trig point for Penshaw Hill (136m) near Sunderland.

The High Moorsley trig point is sitting in a field (163m) in Houghton-le-Spring.

This is the trig point for Hasting Hill (124m) near Sunderland.

The Killingworth trig point (0m) within Killingworth Village.