This unique museum recreates living conditions in the North of England in 1825 and 1913. Set in more than 300 acres, it features some buildings that pre-date Beamish, but...

A three acre country garden created by the present owners with over 500 yards of colour themed mixed borders. There are also ponds, orchards with young specimen trees under-planted with...

The museum is based in the annex of a local church and is responsible for collecting a social and political archive of information on this area of the country....

This activity centre offers plenty of excitement including an assault course, a climbing wall, cycle hire, a ski slope, archery and orienteering. There is also a snowboarding club. With such...

Based on the world of construction machinery, Diggerland guarantees a fun filled, exciting, action packed day out for kids and adults of all ages. This is a unique adventure park...

Gibside is an 18th Century landscape garden and the former home of the Bowes-Lyon family, with miles of walks through wooded slopes, not to mention the riverside of the Derwent...

Washington ‘F’ Pit’s magnificent Victorian steam engine, engine house and headgear are preserved to mark the town’s coalmining heritage that reaches back over 250 years. The industrial monument is the...

The Sage Gateshead is a stunning centre, designed by Lord Norman Foster, for live music. The building towers over the River Tyne. It consists of two performance spaces of acoustic...

For railway enthusiasts this is one of the real treats of the region as it is the only place in the country where it is possible to see a rope...

In the middle of the New Town of Washington, Tyne & Wear, lies the original village and Washington Old Hall, the ancestral home of America’s first president, George Washington. It...

There are over seven hundred pieces by local arts and craftspeople on display at the Shipley Art Gallery. Some of the disciplines that are tackled in the innovative exhibitions...