English Heritage & National Trust places in North East

A largely unaltered fortified medieval manor, with a hall, battlements and walled orchard, open on selected dates.

Balliol fortress above the Tees, with extensive ruins, a round tower and Richard III's boar badge.

Greek Revival hall, medieval castle and quarry gardens, with woodland walks and a family trail.

Benwell Roman Temple is a small archaeological enclosure among the houses of western Newcastle, a striking reminder that Roman settlement extended beyond Hadrian's Wall's rural stretches.

Medieval castle remains and Elizabethan ramparts surrounding Berwick's historic town centre.

Bessie Surtees House brings together two five-storey merchants' houses beside Newcastle's Quayside, with timber framing and projecting upper floors that recall the city's trading past.

Black Carts Turret sits within a long surviving section of Hadrian's Wall west of Chesters Roman Fort.

Black Middens Bastle House shows how a farming family defended its home in the troubled Anglo-Scottish border country.

The substantial shell of Henry II's 12th-century keep, built over a Roman fort guarding Stainmore Pass.

A restored medieval priory church and neighbouring manor house in a wooded bend of the River Coquet.

Brunton Turret preserves a particularly substantial piece of Hadrian's Wall near Chollerford, with stonework reaching about two and a half metres high.

Roman cavalry fort with riverside baths, surviving barracks and the Clayton Museum collection.

Walk an original Roman high street and explore the museum's Corbridge Hoard and everyday objects.

Derwentcote Steel Furnace preserves a conical industrial building from around 1730, when the Derwent Valley helped supply Britain with high-quality steel.

Riverside ruins of a medieval manor fortified during the Anglo-Scottish border conflicts.

Ruins of a small Premonstratensian abbey above a bend in the River Tees.

Border castle ruins captured by James IV's army before the Battle of Flodden.

A free-to-enter monastic ruin in a wooded bend of the Wear, founded on the site of St Godric's hermitage.

A repeatedly besieged border fortress above the Tweed, with current access restricted to the outer ward.

Planetrees Roman Wall preserves only about 35 metres of Hadrian's frontier, but it records a revealing change in the Roman building programme.

A Tyne valley fortress with a barbican and millpond, offering daily outer-bailey access and selected inner-ward openings.

Sewingshields Wall follows the crest of the Great Whin Sill, where Roman builders used a rocky ridge to strengthen the frontier's defences.

Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications reveals part of an enormous centre of Brigantian power in northern Britain, enclosed by roughly four miles of defensive earthworks.

Winshields Wall follows the highest part of Hadrian's Wall, where the surviving frontier crosses exposed upland country west of Once Brewed.

Lord Armstrong's revolutionary Victorian mansion, the first house lit by hydroelectric power.

A Georgian forest estate in the Derwent Valley with a Palladian chapel and Bowes-Lyon heritage.

A dramatic Tudor-fort-turned-Lutyens-home on Holy Island, reached by tidal causeway.

Vanbrugh's theatrical Baroque masterpiece on the Northumberland coast, dramatically fire-scarred and restored.

The world's first purpose-built electric lighthouse, set on dramatic Marsden clifftops.

A welcoming Northumberland country house with Pre-Raphaelite murals and beautiful walled gardens.

The ancestral home of George Washington's family, a 17th-century stone manor in Tyne and Wear.