Find Places To Visit In The North

Sitting on a blowy corner of the Northumberland National Park, is Causeway House, Northumberland's only heather thatched cottage. With a history of hidden lucky roof charms and close to a Roman Milecastle.

A ruined colliery engine house that was part of a monumental mining disaster.

Two drinking fountains given to the people of Blaydon by Joseph Cowen in the 1860s.

A lovely little 12th century ruined castle just outside of Rothbury.

A BAC Jet Provost T5 (serial XW405) outside the Hartlepool College of Further Education, shown banking to starboard.

A ceramic wall mural, installed on the site of a former bakery.

An ancient market cross, the base dating from Medieval times, and a curious stone table once used as a pulpit for John Wesley to preach from.

A statue outside the entrance to Stirling Castle commemorating the second Boer War.

17 street murals around Spennymoor and a case of ‘there is more to these than meets the eye’.

A precariously placed lime kiln pit near Cocklawburn beach.

The Parish Church of Wigtown.

Ruins of a medieval chapel dedicated to St Ninian.

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

Former golf course with far reaching scenic views, a café with a model of an early steam engine by Stephenson.

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

A ruined lime kiln sitting between Cateran Hole and Ros Castle in the Alnwick area.

A sculpture park and art exhibition space set within the grounds of Cheeseburn Grange, near Ponteland.

Built in 1906, the Royal Victoria Infirmary is a university-linked teaching hospital, treating over 400,000 patients each year, fronted with some beautiful architecture and offering specialised care and maternity services.

A set of five locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

A sculpture by artist, Christine Hill, erected in 1991 as 'a reminder that the rhino, one of the world's great animals, is threatened with extinction by the greed of mankind'.

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

The only museum dedicated to the history of science fiction in the UK with lots of amazing memorabilia on show.

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

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

A World War I memorial of a six foot soldier, with his rifle lowered, taking a drink from his canteen by Ray Lonsdale.

A giant trowel next to the North Seaton Community Centre in Ashington.

Priory founded in 1113, nestled in the heart of Bridlington old town.

A 35m tall chimney that was part of the Gaunless Valley Lead Mill.

Observatory dating from 1765, built by local astronomer Thomas Wright.

The Keverstone Grange trig point sits in a hedge (193m) near Barnard Castle.

An ancient burial ground for a Bronze Age chieftain called Prince Caryn.

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

A 19th century lime kiln near the Wannie Line.

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

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

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

A bridge across the Ouseburn in Jesmond Dene, built by William Armstrong at his Elswick works.

A 30 foot high bottle with a quote from Captain Cook's journal.

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

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

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

An urban gallery displaying the work of 12 artists based on the history of the area.

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

Magnificent folly on the outskirts of Richmond, built around 1760.

The Raven Hills trig point sits on Monks Moor (522m) near Middleton-in-Teesdale.

A modern day folly set in the Lilburn Tower estate next to the Hurl Stone.

The Little Hen Hill trig point sits in a forest (344m) near Kielder.

An early medieval royal settlement site near Yeavering in Northumberland, associated with the kings of Bernicia and notable for its great timber hall and assembly place.

Stone steps with a geometric pattern depicting local heritage.

A large man-made cavern near Rydal Water in the Lake District, created by slate quarrying in the 19th century.

Photogenic museum with geological interest and eclectic items dating to Georgian times.

The Clachan Bridge between mainland Scotland and the Isle of Seil.

Ruins of a 9th century chapel, with graves cut directly into the nearby rocks.

A tiny place of worship, hidden away, with a hefty nine hundred year history and notable Norman architectural features.

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

A Celtic cross, commemorating the lives of James and Charles Radcliffe, Earls of Derwentwater, Viscounts Langley.

A cairn memorial to John Cobb who died attempting to set a world speed record on Loch Ness.

A heart filled horseshoe horse, surveying the summer sunshine and the gentle tilts and curves of the upland Buteland view near Bellingham.

Stone commemorating Robert the Bruce's first victory over an English army in 1307.

Two chambered cairns dating back to the Neolithic period.

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

A beautiful church filled with art, history and culture in the fork of the road up to the College Valley.

An old tithe barn within the grounds of Foulden Parish Church where parishioners would give the church 10% of their agricultural produce.

Ruin near Kelso overlooking the River Tweed, in the grounds of Floors Castle.

Once a former chapel, but is now a museum, packed full of local heritage.

A mausoleum for William the second Earl, who died in 1844.

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

A country manor house with beautiful gardens, an observatory, old church and ruined pele tower.

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

15th century well head in Durham that once supplied water to the area and gave Framwellgate its name, now preserved as a small stone structure.

An early 18th Century well in Ford.

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

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

Medieval fortress dating back to the 13th century.

The Collinsons Hill trig point sits on Bowes Moor (435m) near Barnard Castle

Guibal fan house built in 1872, which once ventilated Huntcliff Ironstone mine.

The highest perched toilet in England, situated in Northumberland National Park

The Whorley Resr trig point sits next to a Reservoir (184m) near Barnard Castle.

A column in memory of James Evelyn's parents, moved from Felbridge up to Lemmington, Northumberland.

This is the trig point for Blackburn Common (366m) near Kielder.

A medieval base with Victorian shaft surmounted by a salmon-shaped weather vane, marking the centre of Norham village life.

An enchanting gatehouse and remains of a Medieval almshouse and hospital on an elbow of the River Wear in Durham.

Disused haybarn on the Croxdale Hall estate.

When art meets mathematics you get a geometric granite sculpture.

Smuggler's Bothy built by the famous smuggler John Robertson in 1760.

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

An outstanding painting at Sheburn Village by Jordan Stead AKA Twenty Six Studio. It has become the pride of the village.

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

An 11th Century Church in the village of Egglescliffe

The last remaining hut built to accomodate the workers who constructed the Catcleugh Reservoir.

Chinese gingall gun captured during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, brought to Bellingham as a war trophy from the China Expeditionary Force.

Drinking fountain constructed in 1880, positioned at the entrance to York Museum Gardens.

Crackpot hall is an abandoned farm close to the Beldi Hill Lead Mine near Keld in the Yorkshire Dales.

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

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

A group of nine cairns sitting on the aptly named Nine Standards Rigg just east of Kirby Stephen.

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

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

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

A spectacular sandstone rockface in Ridsdale used for bouldering and climbing, with breathtaking views across Northumberland from the top.