Find Places To Visit In The North

Disused haybarn on the Croxdale Hall estate.

Individual artwork creations, on opposite sides of the main road in Ushaw Moor.

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 set of crags on the north east face of Hedgehope Hill standing at 404m above sea level.

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.

Public gardens with sunken trees, an Italian rock in the fountain, and the stunning backdrop of a former 18th-century rectory.

Square lighthouse overlooking the Solway Firth.

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

A gas-fired beacon installed for Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.

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

Abandoned farm buildings built around 1851.

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

Ruined priory built in the 1100s, said to be home of one of Scotland's first Cristian communities.

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.

Spire which once linked two chapels in Amble East Cemetery.

A medieval dovecote in the middle of a bunch of houses with a dove's eye view of the sea.

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

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

Picturesque waterfall in the heart of Galloway Forest.

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

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

Based in Cumbria, Carlisle Castle that had the most sieges and also the last siege in Great Britain.

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.

The remains of an Iron Age Hillfort sitting on a little spur of Clennell Hill near Alwinton.

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

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

The remains of a chapel founded by St Ebba.

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

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

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.

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

A Medieval wayside cross.

An 18th-century commemorative tower built by the MacDuff family, former landowners of the nearby Bonhard House.

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

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

A memorial drinking fountain, dedicated to the memory of the 3rd Earl Ravensworth in Whittingham.

A big cairn sitting on the end of Comb Fell.

This former prestigious rectory is one of the oldest domestic houses in England and is haunted!