Find Places To Visit In The North

A holed stone in the Simonside Hills that lines up with the summer solstice.

A church with 13th century and earlier origins set on the spectacular Church Point Headland in Newbiggin by the Sea

A former POW camp located behind Featherstone Castle for Italian and German prisoners of war.

18th century gateway to Craster Tower, now an iconic entrance to the village of Craster.

A 900m long pier protecting ships when entering the River Tyne at Tynemouth.

A small saxon church built on the site of an old 8th century church near Edlingham Castle.

A castellated farmhouse sitting on the foundations of a 15th century motte and baily castle.

A town with a nature reserve, memorial garden, cemetry and a reconstructed miners pit cage, celebrating the times of mining in Easington Colliery.

A folly named after a princess overlooking bodies in a natural woodland burial site!

A traditional Victorian Park packed with features sitting between Tynemouth and North Shields.

A sandstone ridge to the south of Rothbury with teems of crags, wildlife and amazing views.

24 hectare park with lake, woodland and waymarked paths in the heart of Gateshead.

A Doric style column with a Percy Lion on the top dedicated to the 2nd Earl of Northumberland.

A ruined windmill sitting on the highest part of the Cleadon Hills.

The smallest museum in Northumberland (if not the world!!) with pictures, memorabilia and trinkets about boating life in Alnmouth.

A limestone cave in Knaresborough where local legend has it that Mother Shipton was born and lived.

A 12th century keep in the heart of Newcastle upon Tyne.

A ruined medieval English castle situated on the south bank of the River Tyne.

A ruined 16th-century L-plan tower house located on a ridge above Seacliff beach.

A Parish Church close to the centre of Rothbury, parts of which date back to the 1200s

A ruined fort tower on the opposite side of the harbour to Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island.

A concrete water tower located next to Northgate Hospital in Morpeth.

A 13th century church located in the grounds of Ford Castle, later restored by John Dobson.

Causey Arch is the oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge in the world.

Stublick Chimney is a grade II listed building from the former Langley lead smelting mill.

A beautiful set of beach huts situated on the Blyth Promenade.

A pretty church sitting in amazing countryside with breathtaking views in Low Alwinton.

A beacon that when lit would warn the neighbouring villages of an impending attack!

A very well hidden stone viaduct spanning the River Blyth at Plessey Woods for the East Coast Main Line.

A beautiful folly set in the grounds of the Gibside estate which is now a holiday home.

Decommissioned leading lights in North Shields.

Finchale Priory was a benedictine priory founded in 1196 on the site of the hermitage of Saint Godric.

An old gun battery from the 19th century and reused in WW2.

One thousand acres of historic park and woodland set against the backdrop of Lambton Castle.

The Market Cross was erected to the memory of Lord And Lady Armstrong.

The trig point sitting on top of Tosson Hill (440m) #147.

A 17th-century Jacobean mansion disguided as a castle just north of Hexham.

A ruined medieval castle in Warkworth standing over a loop of the River Coquet.

A castelled octagonal building in Seaton Sluice that was once a tax office, harbour master house and now a gallery.

Life size sculpture referring to the legend of Durham's founding on the banks of the River Wear

A grade two listed iconic building in Cullercoats constructed as a lookout for fishermen.

A 13th century fortified manor house set in beautiful woodland setting near Corbridge.

Small Camera Obscura on the edge of Kielder Reservoir.

A beautiful little barn used to collect tithes in the middle ages.

Probably the finest pele tower in Northumberland with magnificent views and beautiful gardens.

Gibside is a 720 acre estate acquired by the Bowes family in 1713.

A 12th century medieval monastery built on a bend of the River Coquet, near Rothbury.

An ornamental pele tower that was once part of a 16th century manor house.

A beautiful tower sitting atop the crag of Lady Hill near Kelso.

A spectacular woodland planted on crags to the north and south.

A 12th-century castle in Northumberland on the bank of the River Tipalt rich in history and treasure!

A nature reserve set within Gosforth Park where you can see birds, otters, deer and much more.

A ruined Priory on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, widely considered to be the birthplace of Christianity in England.

A blue stone that has links to the Saxons, the black death, vaccinations and strongman feats!

Designed by local sculpturer Ray Lonsdale, this statue 'Horns' could be the Angel Of Durham.

A life sized bronze sculpture in memory of Lord Armstrong on Barras Bridge outside the Hancock Museum.

Small and pretty local nature reserve with lots of wildlife to see.

A Victorian public park in Walker, Newcastle with links to Robert Burns and its own population of Ring Necked Parakeets.

A 12th century church standing on the site of the original wooden church built by St Aidan in the 7th century.

A defensive gun battery established near the mouth of the Tyne during the Anglo Dutch Wars in the 17th Century and used during various later conflicts.

Site of the battle of Newburn Ford and Ryton Willows Local Nature Reserve

A Grade I Listed Church in Mitford with a number of interesting architectural features and Grade II Listed tombstones and Lych Gate in the churchyard.

A stone circle marking the grave of three kings of Denmark.

Statue dedicated to EM Perkins whose company supplied materials for the High Level Bridge in Newcastle.

Stunning 284 acre country park with woodlands, wetlands and lowland heath.

A stone chair of carved gargoyles situated in Durham on the banks of the river Wear.

A series of 12 gardens set in 3 acres of land in rural Gateshead.

Fountains and water troughs throughout Alnwick that were once used to provide clean water.

A 4m standing stone, most likely a headless cross, maybe thrown there by giants or the devil.

A Nature Reserve alongside the River Breamish in the Northumberland National Park

A pele tower that used to be part of the vicarage for the adjoining St James Church.

A sculpture of four metal cows constructed from old JCB parts, grazing on the C2C route near Beamish.

Famous book shop in the old Alnwick train station.

The private estate of the White Ridley family where the grounds are filled with wonderful statues, follies and temples.

A 3 chambered cave used by the monks as storage and safegaurd and as a dwelling for St Constantine.

Manor house associated with the family of George Washington, first president of the USA.

A quaint little fishing village set around old fishermen's cottages and spectacular jagged cliffs - Also twinned with New Asgard!

Stepping stones over Ladyburn Lake in Druridge Bay Country Park.

A spectacular mausoleum for the British soldier Thomas Monteath Douglas.

A none conformist burial ground that is now a recreation area.

One of the remaining arches carrying a two mile horizontal chimney as part of a flue system.

Modernist footbridge completed without using scaffolding in 1963

A 12th century castle that saw plenty of action during the wars between England and Scotland.

The largest timber structure in Europe, built in 1893.

Dramatic landscape and panoramic views of the coast. Stone art with science, history and mythology.

The trig point sitting on top of The Cheviot Summit (815m).

An 18th century, 40 acre park designed by London architect, James Paine.

A 15th century gatehouse that was part of the Alnwick old town walls.

A 600 year old ruined Pele Tower used as a stronghold against invading scots.

A plaque marking the site of a gibbet where Michael Curry was chained for murder.

Built in the 1870s, it was the first lighthouse in the world to be designed and built specifically to use alternating electric current.

A 14th century ruined castle managed by the English Heritage.

A grade I listed castle built in 1392, now a stunning hotel.

A Country Park and lake on the outskirts of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Anglo-Saxon Monastery where St Bede spent his life from the age of seven.

An ingeniously preserved lime kiln sitting on the wonderfully named Slag Hill.

A prehistoric standing stone with cup markings.

A lime kiln situated on Alnwick Moor, one of 400 that would have been used in Northumberland.

The first five sailed smock style windmill in Britain and the only remaining one in the North East.

Northumberlandia is a unique landform sculpture near Cramlington, opened by Princess Anne in 2012.