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

Georgian era sundials on two facades of one house at The Green in Richmond.

Four mural sites depicting the cultural history of Houghton le Spring, created by local artists.

An un-chiselable bit of Hadrian's Wall, near Walwick, where the Romans may have run out of might.

A cairn up near Yeavering Bell at the northern end of the Cheviots which has roots in local folklore.

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

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

A stunning double headed crag on the north east banks of Hedgehope Hill.

Mural of the Fair Slayer By Smug.

A sentry box that once housed AA patrolmen and then a telephone to aid you should your car breakdown.

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

A Corten Steel sculpture by Ray Lonsdale to honour the Herring Girls.

A chunky crag sitting on West Hill on the Cheviot summit in the Northumberland National Park.

A former Royal Air Force site with lots of planes and ghosts.

A dovecote or doocot as the Scots call it, next to Northfield house in East Lothian.

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 sandstone cave that is accessible from one of the narrow streets of Pittenweem, linked to both smugglers and St Fillan, a 7th century missionary.

A small castellated house in Bedale that was used to house leeches which were sold to local doctors for bloodletting.

An ancient sea stack near Oban with links to Scottish folklore.

When art meets mathematics you get a geometric granite sculpture.

A World War I memorial of a six foot soldier, with his rifle lowered, taking a drink from his canteen by Ray Lonsdale.

RSPB Reserve that is home to the largest reed bed in the north west of England.

A castle on the banks of Loch Doon in East Ayrshire thought to have been built by Robert the Bruce.

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

A memorial dedicated to six covenanters killed for their beliefs.

17 street murals around Spennymoor and a case of ‘there is more to these than meets the eye’.

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

A unique fortress style house in Newcastle's West End that was won as a prize in a 1920's raffle.

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.

Remains of a Late Neolithic stone circle on Burley Moor.

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 precariously placed lime kiln pit near Cocklawburn beach.

A real Iron Ore mine which has now been converted into a museum.

An old 18th century windmill part of Birney Hill farm.

A stone artwork by John Maine that forms part of the Kielder Forest Art and Architecture Trail.

An obelisk and monument dedicated the all of the Wigtown Martyrs.

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

A museum of the culture and artifacts of the town and surrounds.

Impressive lime kilns hidden away in woodland near Christon Bank.

Monument to Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, built in 1875.

A huge chunk of rock sitting on the north east banks of Hedgehope Hill overlooking the Harthope Valley.

A hidden gorge, which contains mysterious carvings and has long been associated with pagan rituals.

War Memorial from 1921 by the A68 in Rochester, Northumberland

A memorial obelisk on Lanton Hill erected by Alexander Davison in memory of his brother, John Davison.

A 16th Century Church with links to the now demolished Wetheral Priory.

A sculpture dedicated to the Dalry Covenanter's in St John's Town of Dalry, Dumfries & Galloway.

A driftwood sculpture of a boat situated on the banks of the River Tweed in Berwick-upon-Tweed.

A six foot high stone marking the site of the battle of Moss Raploch, where Robert the Bruce is rumoured to have rested.

Tower set in the beautiful Cumbrian countryside, part of an old parish church.

A hidden waterfall in a mysterious gorge carved with geological formations in the Finnich Glen.

An unusual two story concrete walkway that runs around the perimeter of Torness Nuclear Power Station and includes a fenced off pier.

The Calton Hill trig point sits on a hill (103m) in the heart of Edinburgh City Centre.

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.

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

The remains of St Andrew's Kirk, dating from around the 1100s and with links to the North Berwick Witch Trials.

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

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.

The Arthur's Seat trig point sits on a hill (251m) in Edinburgh.

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

Seven stainless steel collier brigs, setting sail in the remains of an old dry dock by the river in South Shields.

The Parish Church of Wigtown.

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

A grand library ornamented in wood dating to the 17th century with the scent of bibliosmia and a museum with skulls, weapons, and finds from local excavations.

The remains of a gatehouse that lead to an Augustinian Priory Church.

A great set of waterfalls on the Black Water River next to Silverbridge just north of Garve near Dingwall in Scotland.

A Church without parish dedicated to the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket

Quirky water mill maintained by National Trust for Scotland.

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.

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 small Islet in Loch Lomond that is a nature reserve and part of the Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve.

A stunning little waterfall secluded on the Otterburn Ranges near Featherwood.

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

A 17th-century packhorse bridge over the River Esk that comes with it's own love story!

A former showroom for horses, carriages and bicycles, later a car showroom and now an office space which retains many original features including the old wooden horse ramp.

A Grade II listed Water Tower in Teesside built by Sir Hugh Bell in 1915 to supply water to Ingleby Arncliffe and Rounton villages which houses some unexpected things within.

A towering Obelisk on Murrayshall Hill near Scone dedicated to Thomas Graham of Balgowan.

The remains of one of the first artillery defence castles, overlooking the Firth of Fourth near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

Beautiful mosaic of limestone pavement, grassland and ancient woodland.

Twice life size Corten Steel figures by Ray Lonsdale along the River Wear.

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

A lovely cascading waterfall in a stunning gorge near Hethpool in The Cheviots.

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

A statue commemorating David Stirling, the founder of the SAS.

The largest of the Treshnish Isles in Argyll and Bute.

An RSPB reserve set on the River Cree Estuary forming a mosaic of salt marsh, mud flat, lake and reed beds.

The highest crag in Northumberland sitting on Mid Hill on the Cheviot Summit.

Ruined lime kilns on the coastal path near Budle Bay.

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

A sculpture dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the Montagu View Pit Disaster.

A Motte and Bailey Castle thought to date from the 11th century.

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

Not one, but two stone circles a short walk from each other next to the River Esk.

A castle on the south back of Castle Loch near Lockerbie.

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

An art gallery located in the former Christ Church in Hartlepool.

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

A lighthouse and visitors centre which sits at the end of the Mull of Galloway peninsula with incredible views and wildlife.

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

The remains of a tower that was part of a 15th century manor house.