National Trust & English Heritage places in Northumberland

Northumberland's largest ancient woodland in a dramatic river gorge with Victorian paths and red squirrels.

Birthplace of engraver Thomas Bewick on the Tyne, with a printing workshop and museum of his woodblock art.

Dramatic 14th-century castle ruin on a remote Northumberland headland, accessible only on foot.

Sandy beaches and flower-rich dunes between Beadnell Bay and Dunstanburgh Castle, with the fishing hamlet of Low Newton, Newton Pool bird hides and the Long Nanny tern colony.

Spectacular Northumberland seabird colony with thousands of puffins, Arctic terns and breeding grey seals.

Humble Wylam cottage where the father of the railways George Stephenson was born in 1781.

Dramatic sections of the Roman frontier wall riding the Northumberland crags, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Berwick's last surviving Georgian guardhouse, with its soldiers' and officers' rooms and the black hole cell, run by the Civic Society as a free summer museum beside the Elizabethan ramparts.

Carrawburgh Roman Fort housed around 500 soldiers on Hadrian's Wall, with units drawn from what are now France and Belgium.

High surviving stretches of Hadrian's Wall, Milecastle 42 and crag-top views above Cawfields Quarry.

Roman bridge remains on the east bank of the North Tyne, reached separately from Chesters Roman Fort.

Holy Island monastery ruins, a surviving rainbow arch and a museum of Northumbrian Christianity.

Hadrian's Wall follows the rocky Whin Sill beside Walltown Turret, with an approach from Walltown Country Park.

The Percy family’s medieval fortress, with a cross-shaped keep and a separately arranged Hermitage visit.