Places to explore near Newcastle upon Tyne

Coast to coast along the Roman frontier, milecastle by milecastle.

1.3 km SE · Northumberland, Cumbria & Tyne and Wear

The great green steel arch of 1928 that frames the Newcastle skyline, forerunner of Sydney's harbour bridge.

1.4 km SE

Tilting 'blinking eye' footbridge that arcs across the Tyne between the Quayside and BALTIC.

1.5 km SE

Norman Foster's curved glass-and-steel concert hall on the Gateshead riverbank, formerly Sage Gateshead.

1.5 km SE

Vast converted flour mill on the Gateshead quay, now a free contemporary art gallery with a rooftop view.

1.6 km SE

Steep wooded valley park in Newcastle along the Ouseburn, with waterfalls, ruins and old woodland.

2.2 km NE

Antony Gormley's rust-red steel angel, 20 metres tall with a 54-metre wingspan, watching the A1 into Gateshead.

7.3 km S

The world's oldest railway, now a heritage steam line through the Causey valley from Europe's oldest engine shed.

8.6 km SW

A Georgian landscape estate with a ruined hall and Palladian chapel by James Paine.

9.3 km SW

The world's oldest surviving railway bridge of 1726, a single stone arch high above the wooded Causey Burn.

10 km SW

Vast open-air museum near Stanley recreating northern life across the 1820s, 1900s and 1940s with trams and shops.

11 km S

Hundred acres of wetland, wood and meadow on the Wear, home to wild birds, flamingos and otters.

12.3 km SE

Handsome coastal town of grand terraces and a lively Front Street above the sands and priory headland.

13 km E · Tyne and Wear

White-domed Edwardian pleasure dome on Whitley Bay seafront, restored to eateries and a tearoom.

13.3 km NE

Priory ruin on a headland above the sea.

13.5 km E

Vanbrugh's last great baroque house, a bold pile of towers and columns near the Northumberland coast

13.6 km NE

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

13.7 km SE

An island light off Whitley Bay reached by a causeway at low tide, a Tyneside landmark switched off in 1984 and now open to visitors.

15 km NE

Two and a half miles of clifftop grassland and limestone stacks along the coast from South Shields to Souter.

15.2 km E

Great sea-stack of magnesian limestone standing off Marsden Bay, loud with nesting kittiwakes and cormorants.

15.4 km E

Opened near Sunderland in 1871 as the world's first lighthouse purpose-built to use alternating electric current, its red-and-white bands now cared for by the National Trust.

16.2 km E

Long curving Victorian breakwater at Sunderland with a red-and-white lighthouse and a hidden tunnel beneath.

18.1 km E

England's high, quiet backbone of moorland tops, waterfalls and old lead-mining dales, designated in 1988

22.3 km SW

A cathedral city looped by the River Wear, its Norman cathedral and castle rising together above the wooded riverbanks and cobbled Bailey.

22.6 km S · County Durham

The great Norman cathedral on its rock above the Wear, shrine of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede.

22.9 km S

Sea-glass beach and the 'Tommy' war statue.

23 km SE

Graceful three-arch bridge over the Wear giving Durham's most-painted view of cathedral and wooded banks.

23.2 km S

Ray Lonsdale's weathered-steel First World War soldier sitting on Seaham seafront, head bowed.

23.9 km SE

Sean Henry's larger-than-life bronze pair standing out on a platform in Newbiggin bay, Britain's first permanent offshore sculpture.

24.1 km N

Newcastle brewery and taproom in the Palace of Arts at Exhibition Park, beer among the parkland.

0.9 km N

Narrow Victorian gem on Newcastle's Quayside, stained glass and one of the city's oldest bars.

1.1 km SE

Pair of tall 17th-century merchants' houses on Newcastle's Quayside, from whose window Bessie Surtees eloped with the future Lord Chancellor John Scott in 1772.

1.2 km SE

A Victorian cemetery laid out in 1836 by architect John Dobson, with grand chapels.

1.3 km NE

Wood-panelled folk-music pub above the Ouseburn valley, a fixture since the 1890s.

1.9 km E

Plain Ouseburn boozer with the finest beer-garden view in Newcastle, the bridges lined up along the Tyne.

2.1 km E

Footings of a little Roman shrine to the local god Antenociticus, from the settlement beside Benwell fort, now in a quiet street of Newcastle houses.

2.8 km W

Stone causeway carrying the road to Benwell fort over the Vallum ditch, the only such crossing still visible anywhere along Hadrian's Wall.

3 km W