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A ruin of a folly shaped like a shepherd's hut on the Alnwick moors.

A beautiful pele tower perched on Minto Crags peaking out of the trees.

The Whitton Hill trig point is hidden in a copse of trees (74m) near Ford And Etal.

This is the trig point for March Head (454m) near Kielder.

The Law Plantation trig point sits in woodland (177m) near Belford.

The Etherley Lane trig point sits in a hedge (167m) near Witton Le Wear.

The Currack Rigg trig point sits on moorland (304m) near Barnard Castle.

The Thistle Green trig point sits on Cronkley Fell (544m) near Middleton-in-Teesdale.

The Hillingdon Farm trig point on the edge of a field (249m) near Barnard Castle.

The Lintzgarth Common trig point sits on Windy Hill (554m) near Rookhope.

The Hardberry Hill trig point sits above the Coldberry Gutter (530m) near Middleton-in-Teesdale.

The Wolfcleugh Common trig point sits on moorland (607m) near Alston.

The West House Field trig point sits in a hedge (82m) near Sedgefield.

The Harter Fell trig point sits on Crossthwaite Common (481m) near Middleton-in-Teesdale.

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

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

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

19th century church built by the Salvin family.

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

A monument to two engineers who died during the collapse of the Penmanshiel Tunnel expansion.

A cast iron book sculpture a dedicated to the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid.

Lime kilns built in 1847, hidden away in the beautiful Weardale countryside.

An obelisk erected to James Maitland Balfour, MP and Major Commandant of the East Lothian Yeomanry Cavalry.

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

This is the trig point for Camp Hill (200m) near Ford And Etal.

The Woodland trig point sits on Hindon Hill (370m) near Witton le Wear.

The Cote Hill trig point sits in a hedge (141m) near Newton Aycliffe.

The Blue House trig point sits in a hedge (231m) near Bishop Auckland.

The Black Hill trig point sits north of Westernhope Moor (559m) near Stanhope.

An 18th Century church dedicated to St Ebba.

A vibrant mural painted on a gable-end wall, paying tribute to the history of Chester le Street.

A Church in Romaldkirk known as the "Cathedral of the Dales" and dating back to Saxon times.

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

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

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

The remains of a tower that was part of a 15th century manor house.

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

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

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

Monument built in 1835 in memory of a local shepherd's boy, Alexander Murray.

A spectacular mausoleum for the British soldier Thomas Monteath Douglas.

This is the trig point for The Dodd (354m) near Kielder.

This is the trig point for Monylaws (246m) near Ford And Etal.

This is the trig point for Grey's Pike (446m) near Kielder.

The High Copelaw Farm trig point sits in a Hedge (95m) near Newton Aycliffe.

The Citron Seat trig point sits on Gilmonby Moor (446m) near Barnard Castle.

The Hoove Faggergill trig point is sitting on Faggergill Moor (554m) near Barnard Castle.

Statue of Constantine the Great who was made Roman emperor in AD306.

An early 18th Century well in Ford.

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'.

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

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

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

A private beach to the east of North Berwick with views to Bass Rock.

Square lighthouse overlooking the Solway Firth.

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

Impressive Bronze Age stone circle, close to Wigtown.

A cool rural wicker man, keeping an eye on any bad lads on the border of Northumberland and Durham.

Ruins of a 14th century chapel in the grounds of Low Friarside Farm.

A cairn on the cusp of the Cheviot and right on the border of England And Scotland.

An obelisk commerating playwright and poet James Thomson, who also penned the words to Rule, Britannia.

A three draw arch lime kiln in Otterburn.

A ruined castle on the Scottish side of the border built by the 1st Earl of Roxburghe.

The Moss Mire trig point sits in a field opposite a disused quarry (308m) near Barnard Castle.

The Mickle Fell trig point sits above Lune Forest on MOD land (758m) near Middleton-in-Teesdale.

A life saving barometer swallowed up in the body of a monument to the fishermen of Dunbar.

Spectacular cave on the Isle of Staffa formed by basalt pillars

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

A monument erected for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

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

A nature reserve which was an old mining area with remains of a monolithic winding engine house.

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

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

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

An unfinished castle built by Sir John Seton situated a few miles north-east of Haddington in East Lothian.

A 200 year old water tower in Aberlady that was used to provide water to Luffness hall.

A 3m tall standing stone in a field in East Lothian dated back to the Bronze Age.

A type of roundhouse that was built during the Iron Age in Scotland and is located on the slopes of Cockburn Law.

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

A ruined bastle which may not have been a bastle after all.

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

The Eggmartin Hill trig point sits in a field (222m) near Barnard Castle.

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

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

The Carr Brow Moor trig point sits on moorland (504m) near Stanhope.

A white stag painted on the rocks below Bamburgh Lighthouse with lots of origin stories!

A huge metal spider artwork on the side of a house in North Shields.

A six foot stone hat tip to the efforts and energies of the women who kept the herring industry afloat in Dunbar.

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 pre-Norman boundary stone from 950AD marking the border between English Northumbria and the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde.

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

A hearse house hidden in the beautiful Allen Valley which was funded through the philanthropy of local travelling tea seller, Isaac Holden.

An obelisk on Whita Hill for John Malcolm, one of Langholm's most accomplished naval officers.

A well head commissioned by Lady Waterford that was once fed by a natural spring and linked to the Battle Of Flodden.

A subtle stone sculpture hidden in a dry stone wall in the middle of the Galloway Forest Park.

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

Howk Bobbin Mill is a ruined 19th century mill, it is hidden away surrounded by trees with the River Caldew running alongside it and the mystical fairy pools nearby.

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