Places to explore in NorthumberlandEngland · North East England

Rocky islands off Seahouses holding tens of thousands of puffins, nesting terns and a large grey seal colony

0.35 km²

Great border castle, Hogwarts on screen.

Tidal island reached by a causeway that floods twice daily, with the priory ruins, Lindisfarne Castle, a village and dune walks

4.9 km²

The most photographed dip on Hadrian's Wall, where a lone sycamore stood in a saddle of the crags until it was felled in 2023.

Armstrong's wooded estate — the first house lit by hydro.

4.1 km²

A vast castle on a basalt crag above miles of Northumberland sand.

Lutyens castle on a crag, reached by causeway.

Gaunt ruin on a lonely coastal headland.

England's emptiest national park — big skies, Hadrian's Wall and gold-tier dark skies.

1,051 km²

Cross-shaped keep above a looping river.

Cradle of English Christianity, red-stone ruin.

A high car park and ridge with sweeping views along the switchback crags of central Hadrian's Wall.