A Baroque masterpiece designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim, for the Delaval family, known for their wild parties and practical jokes. Part of the house was gutted by fire in 1822, giving its dark, dramatic interior.
The gardens and the coast nearby, including Seaton Sluice harbour, are worth exploring.
A red and white striped lighthouse opened in 1871, the first designed to use alternating electric current.
A Georgian landscape garden in the Derwent Valley, created by the coal baron George Bowes, with a Palladian chapel, a column to Liberty taller than N…
The Victorian home of the inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong, and the first house in the world lit by hydroelectricity.
The wall built across northern England by the Emperor Hadrian from 122 AD to guard the Roman Empire's north-west frontier.
A group of rocky islands off the Northumberland coast, home to around 200,000 seabirds in summer, including tens of thousands of puffins, and a large…
A Tudor fort on a rocky outcrop on Holy Island, turned into a holiday home by Edwin Lutyens for Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine.
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