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

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

This is the trig point for Monkside (513m) near Kielder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A spectacular stone circle on the Moor Divock area of Askham Fell near Ullswater.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 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 spectacular mausoleum for the British soldier Thomas Monteath Douglas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A monument to where a Richmond man's horse threw him over a cliff and his plan to stay alive.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Ruins of a Benedictine monastery first built in 1088.

A pair of controversial horned, helmeted and shield wielding Vikings in Jarrow Town Centre.

A large Corten Steel artwork of lovers' hands entwined, by Ray Lonsdale.

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

A monument erected for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

A dovecote or doocot as the Scots call it, next to Northfield house in East Lothian.

An octagonal summerhouse on Down Law in Ancrum near Jedburgh built by Robert Rutherford who was a Baron of the Russian Empire.

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

A trio of curious follies located behind Sorrelsykes House near Aysgarth.

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

A slightly ruined lime kiln in Hepple in between Rothbury and Elsdon.

A three draw arch lime kiln in Otterburn.

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

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

A bronze cast statue of the remarkable war-time bear who lived and travelled with Polish soldiers, and ended his days living in the Scottish Border town of Duns, before retiring to Edinburgh Zoo.

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

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

A square towered dovecote, built in the 18th century of brick, with stepped cogged cornicing at the eaves and a pyramidal pan tiled roof.

Monument to Randolph Stewart, 9th Earl of Galloway, built in 1875.

A hidden away home to The Kerr clan of Lothian, Ferniehirst Castle is a rarely open gem nestled in the Borders.

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.

Sandstone crag, popular with climbers, on the hills near Edlingham with a hidden surprise.

Visit the ruins of a once-thriving Carmelite monastery in Aberlady, East Lothian.

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