Find Places To Visit In The North

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

Striking cable stayed bridge over the River Wear in Sunderland, with a 105 metre pylon and riverside paths offering impressive views.

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

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 stone monumnet standing on the Eston Hills that replaced a Napoleonic beacon.

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

A memorial to the mining past depicting a miner with a pickaxe, working in a narrow seam.

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

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

Impressive lime kilns hidden away in woodland near Christon Bank.

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 Grade II listed Water Tower in Teesside built by Sir Hugh Bell in 1915 to supply water to Ingleby Arncliffe and Rounton villages which houses some unexpected things within.

A historical sliver in pinky Penrith sandstone, Kirkoswald Castle was built to impress and defend.

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

A 14th century ruined castle in the small village of Innerwick built for Scottish royals.

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

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

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

An early 18th Century well in Ford.

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

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

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.

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

19th century church built by the Salvin family.

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.

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 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.

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

A large-scale mural bursting with energy, depicting Roker Lighthouse.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Square lighthouse overlooking the Solway Firth.

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

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

Impressive Bronze Age stone circle, close to Wigtown.

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

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

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

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

Spectacular cave on the Isle of Staffa formed by basalt pillars

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.

Attractive murals back to back on a brick wall in a former cemetery now a small park in 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 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 Carr Brow Moor trig point sits on moorland (504m) near Stanhope.

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

A rock formation on Ilkley Moor thought to resemble a Cow and its Calf.

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

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.

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

The most northern point in England right on the coast.

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

A water pump and stone trough, with nearby set of medieval stocks.

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

A wishing well in a water meadow near Wooler where bent pins were dropped for wishes.

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