Belsay Hall is a 19th century country mansion and a Grade I listed building. The house was built between 1810 and 1817 for Sir Charles Monck (then of Belsay Castle close by).Sir Charles himself was the designer of the building .It is a notable and early classical building. The house measures 100 feet (30 m) square with a lower…
Home to history and the arts, Berwick Barracks is the ideal place for a family day out. Built in the early 18th century to the design of the distinguished architect Nicholas Hawksmoor,…
The remains of a medieval castle crucial to Anglo-Scottish warfare, superseded by the most complete and breathtakingly impressive bastioned town defences in England, mainly Elizabethan but updated in the 17th and 18th…
A 460 metre (1,509 feet) length of Hadrian’s Wall including one…
A fortified farmhouse with thick stone walls, of a type distinctive to the troubled 16th century…
Brinkburn Priory lies on a bend of the…
Wall section and a surviving piece of turret 2…
A fine stretch of Hadrian’s Wall on a steep slope,…
Close to Chesters Roman Fort are the remains of a bridge which carried Hadrian’s Wall across the North Tyne. Visible…
Built almost 2000 years ago to house a Roman army garrison guarding the nearby bridge across the River Tyne, Chesters Roman Fort…
