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Over 10 acres of glorious trees, and plants with stunning romantic backdrops such as St Marys Abbey, The Hospitium, St Marys Tower, and the Roman Walls.

A former courthouse, and gateway to a gaol, now a restaurant and apartments.

Medieval, Regency, and Victorian splendour all under several roofs. A wonderful deer park and woods. Oh and of course, it's haunted!

A 16-hectare lake set in a country park that was once one of the biggest colliery spoil heaps in Europe.

Redundant marine buoys that are artfully decorated and now sit on the banks of the River Tyne.

Excavated Roman fort, with a museum and 35m viewing tower.

A limestone cave in Knaresborough where local legend has it that Mother Shipton was born and lived.

Something for all ages, from dinosaurs to mining, shipbuilding, glass, art, natural history, and an arboretum!

Potentially one of the earliest stone circles in Britain, thought to be constructed around 3000BC, located in one of the finest locations within the Lake District National Park.

A research and teaching laboratory which formed part of the School of Marine Science and Technology at Newcastle University. It is now part of the larger School of Natural and Environmental Sciences.

The trig point sitting on top of The Cheviot Summit (815m).

Ruins of a Roman garrison located on Hadrians Wall, with a museum of artifacts found on site.

Decommissioned leading lights in North Shields.

The Grade I listed Cathedral Church of St Mary, Newcastle's Catholic and first Cathedral.

Causey Arch is the oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge in the world.

Caves at Cullercoats Bay known locally as Fairies Caves.

A hospital built on the site of a 13th century Augustinian Friary to house the "poor freemen" of Newcastle.

Finchale Priory was a benedictine priory founded in 1196 on the site of the hermitage of Saint Godric.

Edwardian Baroque styled town hall which embodies civic pride.

A small rock arch off the coast in South Shields near Souter Lighthouse.

The Vampire Rabbit is a strange and mysterious “grotesque” that can be found above the door at the rear entrance to the historic Cathedral Buildings, adjacent to Newcastle Cathedral.

A spectacular natural landform of Limestone Pavement in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

A curvaceous staircase in wood, metal and concrete by Thomas Heatherwick.

A ruined Augustinian Abbey in the town of Jedburgh.

A natural tidal pool in Whitley Bay that was expanded for swimmers in the 19th century.

A 12th century church standing on the site of the original wooden church built by St Aidan in the 7th century.

Emily Davison was a militant suffragette who died after throwing herself in front of the king's horse at the Epsom Derby.

Also known as All Saints Chantry, it’s a Grade I listed building now housing a bagpipe museum.

The largest timber structure in Europe, built in 1893.

Designed and built as a museum in the style of a French Chateau and housing 22 galleries. Famous for the amazing kinetic art of the Silver Swan.

A grade I listed castle built in 1392, now a stunning hotel.

Two waterfalls on the River Tees within the North Pennine AONB.

A 19th Century Public Park designed by Edward Kemp.

Lime kilns on the coast near South Shields, built in the 1870s.

A Grade I listed building built around 1278 and situated at a shallow crossing point on the River Till, Ford, Northumberland.

A sandstone ridge to the south of Rothbury with teems of crags, wildlife and amazing views.

The gatehouse of the original motte and bailey castle in Morpeth.

12th century abbey dedicated to St Andrew, in the heart of Hexham.

A ruined medieval English castle situated on the south bank of the River Tyne.

The longest surviving section of 'broad wall' on Hadrians Wall.

An abstract sculpture by Eilis O'Connell of a conical, polished stainless-steel sculpture.

A Victorian Public Park dating from 1880.

Beautiful 360 hectare woodland, great for walkers, cyclists and horse riders.

A 19th century fountain dedicated to Bryan Adamson, a lieutenant of the HMS Wasp that was lost at sea.

A traditional Victorian Park packed with features sitting between Tynemouth and North Shields.

A reconstruction of a gatehouse and buildings on the original foundations of the Roman buildings.

162 hectare park with ponds, walkways and bird hides.

18th century lime kilns in the harbour of Beadnell Bay

Manor house associated with the family of George Washington, first president of the USA.

A coastal success in the Turning of the Tide Project and something for all the senses

The ever changing Ouseburn Street Art and Installations.

The trig point sitting on top of Shaftoe Crags (213m).

The first pier on the North East Coast and last pier in Yorkshire.

Early Norman castle built in the 1070s by Alan Rufus.

A Victorian park with many fine features, sculptures, and modern-day art installations including reference to Lewis Carroll.

A church with 13th century and earlier origins set on the spectacular Church Point Headland in Newbiggin by the Sea

A new artwork on the King Street Stairs leading from the Quayside to All Saints Church.

An obelisk standing in Richmond Market Place dating to 1771 with a surprising hidden secret.

A statue of Queen Victoria in St Nicholas' Square to commemorate 500 years of Shrievalty.

Saltburn is home to the oldest water-balanced funicular in the UK and the second oldest in the whole wide world! A cliff lift with the most sensational view of the sea and sand below.

Birthplace of mechanical engineer George Stephenson, built around 1760.

A 14th century ruined castle managed by the English Heritage.

The banqueting hall where Lord Armstrong would entertain his guests.

Locomotion in Shildon is a captivating railway museum that showcases the history of locomotives and their impact on transportation.

A nature reserve at the northern end of Druridge Bay and one of the best wildlife spots in the north east.

An urban conservation area, with grand buildings, cobbled lanes, River Tyne views, and a few pubs.

A piece of public art found at Blyth Quayside representing a full sized steam train and tender.

Probably the largest lime kiln in Northumberland sitting next to Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island.

A museum dedicated to the Volunteer Life Brigade at Tynemouth.

Over six hundred years of stones crossing the Coquet, connecting the route of the old corn road from Hexham to Alnmouth.

A castelled octagonal building in Seaton Sluice that was once a tax office, harbour master house and now a gallery.

A grade II listed rib-arch bridge over the River Tyne.

A quaint little fishing village set around old fishermen's cottages and spectacular jagged cliffs - Also twinned with New Asgard!

All that would have been dock life around the 18th century and complete with one of The Admiralties Frigates, The HMS Trincomalee.

Five bronze life-size swans in various stages of flight that look naturally interwoven with each other.

An old school hall in Ford Village that was decorated with biblical murals by Lady Waterford over 21 years.

Church in the heart of Corbridge village, originally built around 674.

A spectacular waterfall at the head of a forest walk.

The smallest museum in Northumberland (if not the world!!) with pictures, memorabilia and trinkets about boating life in Alnmouth.

A pair of tunnels under the River Tyne for use by pedestrians and cyclists.

A replica of the gibbet used to display the body of the murderer William Winter.

A giant 15 foot spoon in between two fields near Cramlington and Seghill as part of a National Lottery funded art trail.

A monument built to commemorate Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and also celebrate William Wouldhave and Henry Greathead, two of the people credited with the design of the first self-righting lifeboat.

Castle dating back to the 17th century and home to the bishops of Durham.

A 14th century Hermitage carved out of the bedrock on the River Coquet.

A 13th century fortified manor house set in beautiful woodland setting near Corbridge.

Modernist footbridge completed without using scaffolding in 1963

A 12th century castle that saw plenty of action during the wars between England and Scotland.

A 14th century defensive pele tower once used as a vicarage and now is a micro gin bar.

The trig point sitting on top of Windy Gyle (619m).

A mural depicting history and noteworthy people and places of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

An independent Library, the largest outside of London, in the centre of Newcastle established in 1793, opened in 1825 and home of Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society.

A ruined fortress in the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, first built by a Norman baron in c. 1100 on a cliff above the River Nidd.

A Roman Temple dedicated to the God Mithras near to Brocolitia Fort on Hadrian's Wall.

Stepping stones over Ladyburn Lake in Druridge Bay Country Park.

A 12th century medieval monastery built on a bend of the River Coquet, near Rothbury.

The most photographed location in the Lake District. An 18th century Packhorse Bridge.

A 19th Century Windmill in Fulwell, built for Joseph Swan in 1806.

A public Park in Blyth opened in 1904.

A cast iron lighthouse set in Roker Cliff Park.