Crook Hall Gardens
We’ve been National Trust members for quite a few years now, and had gotten around all of our local places within a year or two of becoming members. We’d kept the membership up though as…
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Bowes and Lady Myers
As freshly minted English Heritage members, we’re very excited to get out and explore some new local places which we’ve not yet discovered, being too stingy to pay the individual entry prices (I’ve clearly been…
View PostBowlees, Gibson’s Cave and Summerhill Force
The main attraction for walkers and day trippers in the Durham Dales in without a doubt the waterfall at High Force, widely regarded as one of England’s most spectacular waterfalls. But did you know that…
View PostPiercebridge Roman Bridge & Fort
The weather over the first two weekends of December has been pretty grim, at least, it has been where we are in North Yorkshire. We have had some lovely, crisp, sunny days – we’ve just…
View PostBarningham Moor
If you’ve ever driven along the A66 to get to the Lake District, you probably characterise the whole of the area surrounding it as ‘on the way to the Lakes’ and don’t give it much…
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