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 colony of grey seals. Boat trips from Seahouses land on Inner Farne and Staple Island in the breeding season.
The arctic terns defend their nests by diving at visitors' heads, so wear a hat. Grace Darling's rescue of shipwrecked sailors in 1838 took place here.
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.
The Victorian home of the inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong, and the first house in the world lit by hydroelectricity.
An award-winning, family-run restaurant in the Scottish Borders countryside, known for game and local produce such as venison, lamb and beef, with a …
A Baroque masterpiece designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim, for the Delaval family, known for their wild parties and practical jokes.
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…
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