A red and white striped lighthouse opened in 1871, the first designed to use alternating electric current. Climb the 76 steps to the top, see the engine room and keepers' cottage, and learn about life at a lighthouse.
The Leas, a stretch of grassy clifftop, runs along the coast with views of Marsden Rock, a sea stack covered in nesting birds.
A Baroque masterpiece designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim, for the Delaval family, known for their wild parties and practical jokes.
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.
A distinctive hill with a half-cone summit on the edge of the North York Moors, shaped by a geological fault and mining that collapsed its side.
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…
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