Find Places To Visit In The North

Wooden wildlife hide at Bakethin Nature Reserve near Kielder, offering views over Bakethin Reservoir and opportunities to spot birds and other wildlife.

Sheltered lakeside sculpture at Kielder Waterside featuring large timber uprights and a stainless-steel “cloud” form framing the sky.

Large heritage mural in Horden, County Durham, by Durham Spray Paints, depicting a miner holding a safety lamp to mark 125 years of mining in the village.

A delightful and well preserved tower house near Newton Stewart.

An ancient sea stack near Oban with links to Scottish folklore.

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

A large cairn with a henge and underground chamber near Bathgate in Scotland.

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

A burial vault for John Pringle, built from the rubble of a hospital, church and friary known as The House of the Holy Trinity, with great views out over Southern Scotland.

Impressive 10m high sculpture on the bank of Black Loch.

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

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

Mysterious large stone pillar remains situated high up in Edlingham Woods giving views across Northumberland.

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.

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

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

A lime kiln set in a lovely rolling Hobbiton area.

A plaque in the Market Place commemorating The Hexham Riot of March 1761 where over 50 protesters died in unrest towards government plans to force working men into the militia by ballot.

The house where the poet Robert Burns spent his final days and is now a museum.

Discover the legend of St Margaret and explore a noble Norman church, with fine vistas, located above the banks of the River Wear.

A sandstone cave that is accessible from one of the narrow streets of Pittenweem, linked to both smugglers and St Fillan, a 7th century missionary.

An unmanned flock of aluminium sheep on the green, in the happy village of Sadberge in Darlington.

A sculpture in Hartlepool paying tribute to Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.

A ruined shell of an ancient kirk, teetering on the cliffs at Old Cambus, Cockburnspath.

A 300m artwork celebrating the link between birds and literature.

Sandstone tower built in 1904 used as a navigational aid until 1916

The remains of a 16th century tower house that sits in the garden of a cafe in Earlston.

Beautiful mosaic of limestone pavement, grassland and ancient woodland.

Eight wooden sculptures inspired by Easter Island’s Moai heads in Scarborough.

A ruined house in the Scots Baronial style that is part of the Seacliff Estate.

Discover Hailes Castle in East Lothian, a 13th-century riverside fortress and former Hepburn stronghold linked to Mary, Queen of Scots.

A cave where Robert the Bruce is said to have hidden and may have met a spider.

16th century tower built for Alexander Hannay, and still owned by the family today.

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

Picturesque waterfall in the heart of Galloway Forest.

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

An RSPB reserve set on the River Cree Estuary forming a mosaic of salt marsh, mud flat, lake and reed beds.

A country house near Christon Bank and home to a past Prime Minister, and the longest serving Foreign Secretary.

A ruined farm house on top of Yearning Law near the border ridge.

A 16th century ruined tower house belonging to the Hume family, who were a powerful Border clan.

A ruined 15th century tower house near Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders.

An elaborate white octagonal Greek style dome, containing the grave of Robert Burns.

A beautifully ornate cast iron fountain originally erected in 1882 on Dumfries High Street.

An octagonal Victorian folly built in 1835 for George Head Head of Rickerby Hall, possibly used as a dovecote.

A late 1800s lighthouse, built to replace the original which was erected in 1636.

Late Medieval towerhouse near Arnside in the Lake District.

A stunning little waterfall secluded on the Otterburn Ranges near Featherwood.

Nine prehistoric caves containing Pictish carvings and Dovecots in East Wemyss, Kirkcaldy.

A working water mill built in 1740 near the River Bela.

A folly overlooking the beautiful Black Linn Falls set in the woodlands of The Hermitage near Dunkeld.

A Motte and Bailey Castle thought to date from the 11th century.

14th century rectory, home for the rector of the local church

A beautiful ruinous abbey in Glenluce near Stranraer, that was the home of Cistercian monks for over 400 years.

The Glassonby Stone Circle, was the site of a 1900s excavation of remains of burnt bones, a Bronze Age collared urn and a mysterious blue faience bead.

Two boundary stones where the kings and queens of the Yetholm gypsies were crowned.

A remote memorial cairn to Lord Robinson who was instrumental in forming the British Forestry Commission and Kielder Forest.

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

A dovecote or doocot located in East Linton near Markle.

A perfectly placed little mission church by the sea, curling up Haven Hill in Craster, and home to the last Leonard Evetts commission.

A curious calcium carbonate formation made of petrified plant life in the harbour in Sunderland.

An automated mechanical ‘steam train’which appears every day tooting and clacking.

Museum in Selkirk’s old courthouse where Sir Walter Scott served as sheriff for nearly 30 years, showcasing his life, work and role in local justice.

Danby Beacon is a 301m high point on the North York Moors, featuring a 2008 steel sculpture on a Bronze Age barrow..

A 19th century parish church in Kirk Yetholm, built in 1836 in a simple Gothic style and still in use for worship today.

Sweetheart Wings near Ashington is a curious riverside artwork on the Wansbeck Estuary Art Trail featuring three large boulders that once held metal aircraft sculptures including a Spitfire and Wellington.

Collection of four sculptures on Durham University’s South Road campus, each celebrating history, science, and art.

A 6 metre Victorian folly built in 1896 on a Bronze Age barrow, replacing an earlier tower by Solomon Mycock and offering panoramic views of Buxton and the Peak District.

Statue in a storming pose of an extremely brave WWII soldier.

A late medieval dovecote, just hiding off the A1 near Belford, first documented in 1626, which is grade II and on the National Heritage List for England.

A discreet sandstone monolith in South Gosforth that notes the line of the Ninety Fathom Dyke and the distance from the Gosforth Colliery Shaft.

A Market Hall, dating from the 17th century and Market Cross thought to date from the 13th century in the centre of Bingley.

Historic 1601 tower‑house ruin near Galashiels in the Scottish Borders. Built by George Pringle, now a scheduled monument above the Gala Water.

A 1956 style AA sentry box that would have been a sight of safety for many post war drivers until its closure in 2002.

Ruined 16th century tower house near Longniddry in East Lothian, once home to the Douglas family and later used as a Catholic seminary.

A beautifully positioned ruinous sandstone castle, overlooking the Firth of Fourth in East Wemyss, near Kirkaldy in Scotland.

Ancient Viking Cross dated between 865 and 950 in the graveyard of St Wilfrid's Church.

A set of sandstone steps used by Monks to display and sell their fish.

A castle on the banks of Loch Doon in East Ayrshire thought to have been built by Robert the Bruce.

A memorial dedicated to six covenanters killed for their beliefs.

The base of a medieval cross, sitting in an elevated position on the western edge of Dere Street on the Otterburn Ranges.

A Medieval wayside cross.

A tower constructed in 1897 to mark the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria in Dallowgill, North Yorkshire.

The Great Shunner Fell Trig Point sits on Thwaite Common (716m) near Thwaite in the Yorkshire Dales.

Two rocky outcrops on the banks of Hedgehope Hill.

The Blackford Hill trig point sits on a hill (164m) near Edinburgh.

A drinking fountain erected in Gilesgate, funded by philanthropy in 1858, when Hexham was deemed bereft of sanitation, drainage and clean water for those living and working in the slums.

A memorial column on Dumfries High Street that was erected in 1780 to commemorate the 3rd Duke of Queensberry.

The stunning falls of Bruar Water, that tumble down a gorge through woodland near Blair Atholl.

A small lighthouse that sits on the end of the west pier at Anstruther Harbour.

A spectacular double waterfall sitting right in the heart of the Northumberland National park.

Fields as far as the eye can see of firework bright Dahlia and Chrysanthemums which burst into bloom every autumn, close to Hadrian's Wall.

Remains of a Late Neolithic stone circle on Burley Moor.

A gritstone escarpment in the Peak District popular with climbers, known for its steady winds and wide views across the Cheshire Plain.

Three art installations based on international pilgrims and journeys.

The Stow Old Bridge is a packhorse bridge consisting of three narrow arches over the Gala Water, built around 1654–55 to allow packhorses (and worshippers) to cross safely to the old kirk.

A fine example of a ruinous tower house near Dalbeattie, Dumfries & Galloway.

A pretty little chapel containing ancient stones near Stranraer. Some of the stones date back as far as 500AD.

The remains of one of the first artillery defence castles, overlooking the Firth of Fourth near Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.

A castellated folly on the edge of Kinnoull Hill above Perth.