Links - visitor attractions
Attractions - Northumbria
- see also Events and Heritage
Listings and directories of attractions
AboutBritain site
National Trust - properties in the Yorkshire and the North
East
Listings and directories of attractions
North East Museums
Imagine
- Tyne & Wear Museums - collections online
SoPNE - Sense
of Place North East
Specific sites
Alnwick Castle - mid Northumberland
The Alnwick
Garden
Bamburgh Castle - north
Northumberland
Beamish
Museum
Bowes
Museum
Centre for
Life - Life Interactive World visitor centre, Newcastle
Durham Dales Centre - Stanhope
Earth Balance - sustainable visitor centre in south east
Northumberland
Farne Islands
- Northumberland
Gateshead Quays
- includes Sage music centre and Baltic art gallery
Great North
Forest - north County Durham and south Tyne & Wear
Hadrian's Wall
World Heritage Site
Hartlepool
Historic Quay
HMS Trincomalee
Kielder - huge
reservoir and surrounding huge forest - lots to do
Kielder
cycling pages
Killhope
- the North of England Lead Mining Museum
National Glass Centre
- Sunderland
Newcastle Racecourse
Sage
- Music Centre in Gateshead
Sedgefield Racecourse
Seven
Stories - the centre for children's books - Ouseburn, Newcastle
Tees Forest
Cleveland Ironstone
Mining Museum - Skinningrove, south of Redcar, Tees Valley
Woodhorn - Northumberland
Museum & Archives - colliery museum reopening late 2006
Wildlife
Birdwatch Northumbria
- organised trips all year round
Kielder
Bird of Prey Centre
The Otter Trust
- Pennine Reserve, near Barnard Castle
Art
Art On The
Riverside - public art on Tyne and Wear
Baltic - gallery
for modern art gallery, Gateshead
Tyne & Wear Museums
- including .................
Laing Art Gallery
- municipal art gallery, Newcastle
Shipley Art
Gallery - municipal art gallery, Gateshead
Walking - long distance routes
National Trails
Cleveland Way
- commercial site
Cleveland Way -
official site
Coast to Coast
- commercial site
Hadrian's Wall Path National Trail - opened summer 2003
Cordee guide to the
Trail
Ramblers Association page on Trail
walkingpages.co.uk page on Trail
Pennine Bridleway - riding, cycling and walking - official
site
Pennine Way - official site
Pennine Way - commercial
site
Fishing
Northumbrian
Rivers
Shopping
Metrocentre
- Gateshead
Eldon Square
- Newcastle
Last updated 24 August 2006
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