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 Nelson's Column, and a long avenue between them. The ruined hall and stables stand in woodland with walks of many lengths.
It's a good spot for red kites, which were reintroduced to the valley.
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.
The wall built across northern England by the Emperor Hadrian from 122 AD to guard the Roman Empire's north-west frontier.
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.
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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