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

Lifesize statue of a female welder from the World War II era by Dr Ron Lawson on the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland.

An Iron Age hillfort sitting on top of Great Hetha in the College Valley.

The tallest standing stone in the UK reaching a whopping 7.6 metres located in All Saints Church graveyard in Rudston.

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

A site specific art installation designed by sculptor William Pye for Seaham Hall.

Remains of a Late Neolithic stone circle on Burley Moor.

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

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

A towering stone cross commemorating the life of The Venerable Bede, on Roker seafront.

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

Ruined 16th century tower house near Longniddry in East Lothian, once home to the Douglas family and later used as a Catholic seminary.

A fine example of a ruinous tower house near Dalbeattie, Dumfries & Galloway.

A picturesque ruined Church that replaced St Andrew's Auld Kirk after it collapsed into the harbour.

14th century rectory, home for the rector of the local church

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 grade II drainage portal with a rustic tally house which was used to explore and drain ground in Allendale for mining.

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

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

Doocot built in the 16th century, which once held over 500 birds.

Five silvery steel girders piercing the promontory at St Peter's in Sunderland and growing into the form of a cormorant taking to the sky.

A set of sandstone steps used by Monks to display and sell their fish.

The jaw bones of a whale as a reminder of the whaling industry of Whitby.

Part of the Great Whin Sill located in Holwick in the Pennine Hills.

A ruinous Augustinian Priory in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.

One of the best examples of an unaltered Quaker Meeting House in the North East, nestled in a sparsely populated pocket of land south of Hadrian's Wall.

A historic 14th century Tower with Doocot and Gardens in Prestonpans, East Lothian.

A sculpture by Anna Gillespie reflecting the maritime heritage of Heysham, Lancashire.

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

1,400 acre wetland site with mudflats, pools and reedbeds supporting thousands of birds.

Scone Old Church is an ancient kirk thought to have been originally built in 1286 in the village of Old Scone.

The base of a medieval cross, sitting in an elevated position on the western edge of Dere Street on the Otterburn Ranges.

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

A big cairn sitting on the end of Comb Fell.

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

A pretty little chapel containing ancient stones near Stranraer. Some of the stones date back as far as 500AD.

A beautiful little waterfall located at the bottom of Green Law hill in the Cheviots.

A bijoux phone box visitor centre in Branxton, dedicated to the history of the battle of Flodden Field.

The Blackford Hill trig point sits on a hill (164m) near Edinburgh.

A monument erected for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

A beautiful church with great views near Newton Stewart, Dumfries & Galloway.

A tribute to the incandescent lightbulb invented by Sir Joseph Swan on Swan House Roundabout.

A unique herd of wild white cattle, living on the Chillingham Estate for hundreds of years and rarer than pandas.

The base and part of the shaft of an old wayside marker on the old Roman Stanegate Road.

Twice life size figures by Ray Lonsdale depicting workers involved in the Wearside industries.

A well connected to a freshwater spring, developed by Allen Valley philanthropist Issac Holden to improve the quality of drinking water for the people of his community in Allendale.

A hidden away old marker stone in the wilds of Coquetdale delineating the boundary between Harbottle and Hepple.

Screel Hill is a rocky outcrop (344m) with beautiful coastal views over the Solway Firth in Dumfries & Galloway.

A 2,000 tonne precariously balanced boulder with a wooden staircase so you can climb to the top.

Saltcoats Castle is a ruinous courtyard castle near Gullane in East Lothian.

A scrap metal statue of Henry Pease - Saltburn’s founding father.

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

Pretty waterfalls near Keld in Swaledale.

Sandstone tower built in 1904 used as a navigational aid until 1916

A beautiful ruinous abbey in Glenluce near Stranraer, that was the home of Cistercian monks for over 400 years.

The Eildon Mid Hill trig point sits on the tallest of the Eildon hills (422m) near Melrose.

A dementia friendly garden within Coronation Park in Cramlington.

A concrete crocodile on the banks of the River Wear in Washington, built as part of the new housing estate.

A beautiful blue bronze statue of an oversized tern by Geoffrey Dashwood, resting by the sea in North Berwick.

Discover Hailes Castle in East Lothian, a 13th-century riverside fortress and former Hepburn stronghold linked to Mary, Queen of Scots.

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

A shelter by Softroom Architects on the shore of Kielder Water.

A huge Bronze Age cairn measuring over 4m high and 32m long, near Corriedoo, Dumfries & Galloway.

Award winning observatory within Northumberland Dark Sky Park

Kennedy's Cairn is a giant stone and cement cairn that sits near the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse near Stranraer.

A large cairn with a henge and underground chamber near Bathgate in Scotland.

An RSPB Nature Reserve in Dumfries and Galloway, comprising Ancient Woodland, Rivers, Moorland, Grassland and Scrub habitats.

A delightful and well preserved tower house near Newton Stewart.

The pillar marks the location where Lady Anne Clifford, said farewell to her mother in 1616 near the gateway to Brougham Castle.

An artwork by Colin Wilbourn that forms part of the Art and Architecture Trail at Kielder Water.

A sculptural shelter that forms part of the Kielder Art Trail.

Kisdon is a hill with a large cairn (499m) near Keld, Upper Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales.

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 steel sculpture in the shape of a giant pickaxe in Jarrow, created as a memorial to the town’s mining heritage and the communities who worked in the pits.

The Largo Law Trig Point sits on an ancient volcano (290m) near Upper Largo, Fife.

Metal art exhibit depicting wind and an equatorial sundial on East Shore in Seaham.

Attractive murals back to back on a brick wall in a former cemetery now a small park in Durham.

An old brick built seaman's chapel on Newcastle Quayside, built by Thomas Oliver Junior and opened in 1877.

The Braid Hills trig point sits on a golf course (208m) near Edinburgh.

Memorial statue to commemorate the life of English radical Liberal politician, industrialist, activist and journalist standing tall at the junction of Westgate Road and Fenkle Street in Newcastle.

The Kinnoull Hill trig point sits on Kinnoull Hill (222m) above Perth.

The largest of the Treshnish Isles in Argyll and Bute.

The Skid Hill trig point sits on the edge of a quarry (186m) near Haddington.

A steel sculpture made from hundreds of interwoven leaves honouring 81 residents of Prestonpans who were executed for witchcraft.

An 18th-century circular stone enclosure on the village green in Elsdon, Northumberland, historically used to hold stray livestock until reclaimed by their owners.

Ruined castle built by William Rufus in 1092.

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

The Craiglee trig point sits above Loch Doon (523m) near Craigmalloch.

The Great Shunner Fell Trig Point sits on Thwaite Common (716m) near Thwaite in the Yorkshire Dales.

No murder of Corvids, but a navigational aid for ships.

A statue to commemorate the 18th-century explorer and navigator who changed the western perceptions of world geography.

The Mulloch Hill trig point sits on a hill above St John's Town of Dalry (170m) near New Galloway.

A Victorian model village near Shipley in Bradford, West Yorkshire, built by Sir Titus Salt for his mill workers and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Bellshiel Law Long Cairn is a Neolithic burial monument near Rochester, Northumberland, measuring 109m in length and dating to around 3400–2400 BC.

The Barbay Hill trig point sits on the Isle of Great Cumbrae (127m) in Ayrshire, Scotland.

A cave that is now deep underground accessed by a tunnel and many steps. It is where Queen Margaret of Scotland came to pray in the 11th century.

A hidden away well to the west of Branxton Village, inscribed with a quotation from Sir Walter Scott's poem 'Marmion', about a knight mortally wounded at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 who drinks from the spring.

On the headland at Skateraw stands a cairn topped by a cross, a memorial to the boys of St Giles' (later Cannongate Boys Club).

St Lioba’s Shrine in Slack Head, Beetham is a small roadside memorial built into a stone wall, marking an Anglo‑Saxon saint’s local veneration.

The Rubers Law trig point sits on a hill in Denholm (424m) near Hawick.