National Trust places in North East

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.

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.