7 National Trust places to visit in North East, including 4 houses & gardens, 1 countryside, 1 castle. Tick them off your checklist as you go, or explore them on the interactive map.

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.