The growth of Middlesbrough, Stockton and Darlington in the late 19th and early 20th centuries brought an increasing demand for a...

A walk in upper Weardale from St John's Chapel features a landscape of heather moorlands and grassy uplands, rich pastureland and tiny...

Between popular Teesdale and Swaledale is the valley of the River Greta, only some 10 miles long from where it emerges from Stainmore...

In its middle sections the Tees flows through rich farmland punctuated by dense woodland. It makes for easy walking in a most attractive...

Whatever the season the middle reaches of the Tees valley are always worth exploring on foot. It's a gentle landscape of fertile farmland...

Under its new ownership great changes have already happened to Auckland Castle and its environment and far reaching developments to...

The gentle rolling hills adjoining the Skerne valley a few miles north of Darlington are well worth exploring. The green landscape is...

In its middle reaches, between Darlington and Stockton, the River Tees meanders in a series of loops so exaggerated that they have...

Sedgefield is described by H. Thorold in the Shell Guide to County Durham of 1980 as a 'small town of Georgian houses and wide greens in...

If you enjoy woodland walking, then the Forestry Commission's Hamsterley Forest is for you. The estate was purchased from the Surtees...

This walk, mostly on field paths or riverside tracks, affords spectacular views of Durham City as well as passing sites associated with...

Although blessed with a beautiful landscape of undulating pastureland and wooded side valleys, all surrounded by high moors, Weardale...

The church of St. John in Escomb is, according to Pevsner, "one of the most important and most moving survivals of the architecture of...

The extensive moorlands between the River Greta and the Arkle Beck are crossed by a network of ancient trackways, now little frequented,...

Holwick Scars are one of the most distinctive features in the lanbdscape of Teesdale, a brooding line of sombre crags of fluted pillars...

Described as 'the largest Ancient Monument site in North East England' Cockfield Fell is a huge island of common pasture completely...

Two miles below Wolsingham the River Wear changes its easterly course to flow south east towards Witton-le-Wear. Our 8 and a half mile...

Whatever the season the rights of way of the middle reaches of the Tees valley are always worth exploring. Good paths run close to the...

Once a small agricultural town in upper Teesdale, Middleton was transformed in 1815 by the arrival of the London Lead Mining Company...

To the west of Barnard Castle  a series of tumbling becks rush from the moors down their thickly wooded valleys to join the Tees. They...