Find Places To Visit In The North

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

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

A 19th century viaduct that spans the valley of Batty Moss in the Yorkshire Dales.

Explore stunning water features, magical gardens a treehouse restaurant and the mysterious Poison Garden in Alnwick Garden.

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.

The original 1910 building with the new lantern on its roof.

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

Caves at Cullercoats Bay known locally as Fairies Caves.

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.

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

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.

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.

A splendid feast of medieval lookalike architectural delights, and other things.

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

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

A ruined Augustinian Abbey in the town of Jedburgh.

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

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

Decommissioned leading lights in North Shields.

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.

Edwardian Baroque styled town hall which embodies civic pride.

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

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

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

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.

The largest timber structure in Europe, built in 1893.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The ever changing Ouseburn Street Art and Installations.

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

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

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

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

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 Victorian Public Park dating from 1880.

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

18th century lime kilns in the harbour of Beadnell Bay

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

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

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

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

162 hectare park with ponds, walkways and bird hides.

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

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

Birthplace of mechanical engineer George Stephenson, built around 1760.

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

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

A 19th Century Public Park designed by Edward Kemp.

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

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

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

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

The banqueting hall where Lord Armstrong would entertain his guests.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to the Volunteer Life Brigade at Tynemouth.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A cast iron lighthouse set in Roker Cliff Park.

A monument marking the Battle Of Fodden where the Scottish army of King James IV were heavily defated by the English in a brutal encounter.

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

A spectacular waterfall at the head of a forest walk.

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

Stepping stones over Ladyburn Lake in Druridge Bay Country Park.

An historic market place in the centre of Stanhope and the location of the Market Cross, a Petrified Tree Stump, the War Memorial and St Thomas Church.

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

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.

A Grade II listed Tower Mill dating to around 1790.

Modernist footbridge completed without using scaffolding in 1963

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 restored 19th century mining museum in the centre of the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, where you can experience the life and work of the lead mining families of the North Pennines.

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

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

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.

The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers or as it is more commonly known, “The Mining Institute” is one of the finest buildings in Newcastle. It is a Victorian building built at the time when high-Gothic architecture was coming into fashion.

Medieval castle, home to the Clifford family for 400 years