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A 15th Century Gatehouse to Wetheral Priory, which is all that remains of the complex following the Dissolution of the Monastaries.

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

Corsbie Tower is a ruined 16th-century tower house near Gordon in the Scottish Borders, built by the Cranstoun family and surrounded by earthwork defences.what

The ruin of Swinner Gill Lead Mine near Keld, Upper Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A ruinous Augustinian Priory in Guisborough, North Yorkshire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A monument erected for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

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

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

A big cairn sitting on the end of Comb Fell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Pretty waterfalls near Keld in Swaledale.

A dementia friendly garden within Coronation Park in Cramlington.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The largest of the Treshnish Isles in Argyll and Bute.

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

Award winning observatory within Northumberland Dark Sky Park

A delightful and well preserved tower house near Newton Stewart.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Ruined castle built by William Rufus in 1092.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A ruined 15th century castle that was once the seat of the Clan Campbell.

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

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

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

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

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.

A great example of a 16th century tower house that sits on the eastern side of the Cairngorms near Ballater.

Ruins of a Benedictine monastery first built in 1088.

An imposing Georgian/Victorian footbridge for the gentry to preamble in order to take the spaw waters.