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Observation towers used during WW2 for ground attack training.

An old hillfort sitting on top of Green Humbleton in the borders.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Mural of the Fair Slayer By Smug.

Remains of a Late Neolithic stone circle on Burley Moor.

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

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

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

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

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

An Edwardian Baroque-styled multi-purpose building feature artworks.

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

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

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

A memorial dedicated to six covenanters killed for their beliefs.

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.

A precariously placed lime kiln pit near Cocklawburn beach.

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

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

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

Impressive lime kilns hidden away in woodland near Christon Bank.

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

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

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

An unfinished hotel left to ruin in the hills near Oban.

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.

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

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

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

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

The largest of the Treshnish Isles in Argyll and Bute.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

War Memorial from 1921 by the A68 in Rochester, Northumberland

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

Quirky water mill maintained by National Trust for Scotland.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Beautiful mosaic of limestone pavement, grassland and ancient woodland.

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

The Parish Church of Wigtown.

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

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

Ruined castle built by William Rufus in 1092.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Ruined lime kilns on the coastal path near Budle Bay.

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

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

Artwork by James Turrell on a rocky outcrop on the edge of Kielder Forest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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