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Holidays in Northumbria  -  Travel Information Northumbria

Counties in Northumbria : Durham, Northumberland, Tees Valley, Tyne and Wear.

Cities in Northumbria : Durham, Middlesbrough, Newcastle, Sunderland.


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Camping & Caravanning

 Eurocampings  -  ACSI Camping Guide

Car Rental Northumbria

 Holiday Autos  -   
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

More Car Rental Companies? See the car rental page

Holiday Homes / Cottages / Apartments in Northumbria

    -  leading UK provider of self-catered holidays
Availability search [ refining by specifying price, pet, pub nearby, open fire, swimming pool and more possible ], special offers and brochure request.

  -  Holiday Lodges and Holiday Parks Britain
A short break, or weekend, at one of our holiday parks gives you a real getaway, whatever the season. You'll find well-equipped and cosily heated bungalows, lodges, chalets, apartments and caravans in beautiful forest, countryside and coastal surroundings.

  Interhome  -  Holiday homes

Hostels / Youth Hostels

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 Youth Hostels England

Hotels in Northumbria

 Booking - Hotels in Middlesbrough 

 Booking - Hotels in Newcastle  -  Hotel Guide Newcastle 

 Booking  - Hotels in Durham  -  Hotel Guide Durham
Hotels in Durham, Gateshead, Darlington, Whitley Bay, Washington, Stockton-on-Tees, Thornaby on Tees, Newton Aycliffe, Croxdale, Ryton, Chilton, South Shields, and more ...

 Booking - Hotels in Northumberland  -  Hotel Guide Northumberland
Hotels in Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Whitley Bay, Washington, Morpeth, Ponteland, Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Otterburn, Ryton, South Shields, Wooler, Sunderland, and more ...

 

More Hotels? See Hotels.

National Parks

 Northumberland National Park  -  Land of the far horizons
From exploring Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site to striding through the grandeur of the Cheviot Hills, there is so much to enjoy. Through its heart run the majestic rivers of the North Tyne, Rede and Coquet where otters play, salmon leap and fishermen dream. This is also a rugged borderland, where its Reiver past confronts you in the castles and bastles, which pepper this landscape.

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

Superbreak
Superbreak offer leisure hotel breaks and features 2-5 star hotels, with the majority in the 3-4 star+ rating.

 
Widest choice of self-catering holidays / short breaks throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe
A self-catering holiday in one of Hoseasons' holiday lodges and parks brings a new meaning to the word freedom. From the moment you arrive you can revel in the limitless possibilities offered at every resort centre.
And with late availability and last minute booking facilities, you'll soon be experiencing the holiday of your dreams. Enjoy a weekend or short break in beautiful countryside, at some of Europe's finest beaches or forest surroundings.

 -  Create your perfect trip  -  Flight, Hotel and Car



 Birdwatch Northumbria
Runs birdwatching tours for people who are not birdwatchers! Many people have an interest in birds, yet they rarely go out birdwatching. Often they think they don't have the knowledge to try it, or they feel intimidated when they go out by the seriousness of birdwatchers they meet. If you are such a person please see the website.
 Tellings Golden Miller  -  coach tours and excursions
Day excursions, short breaks & holidays. English seaside resorts, special events, christmas markets, Father Christmas and London Christmas Lights, island adventures, London theatre trips etc. TGM Travel Club [after joining 5% discount!].

Travel Guides Northumbria / Related books

Let's Go with the Children in North East (Northumberland, Durham, Tees Valley, Tyne and Wear, Yorkshire) 
Wendy Lockett
Paperback 56 pages (March 6, 2003); Publisher: Cube Publications; Language: English; ISBN: 1903594286
Northumbria and Hadrian's Wall (Ordnance Survey/AA Leisure Guides) 
Paperback 128 pages (April 30, 2002); Publisher: AA Publishing; Language: English; ISBN: 0749532971
Northumbria Church Walks  -  Peter Donaghy, Peter Laidler
The first walking guide based on Northumbrian churches: 30 detailed walks ranging from 4 to 12 miles based on over 40 noteworthy churches; Easy to follow instructions with cross-referenced maps - ideal both for those wishing to complete the full walk or those who prefer to visit the church and have a short stroll; Detailed descriptions of a variety of landscapes with hills, dales and magnificent coastlines; Gain Insight into our cultural and artistic heritage - fine examples of stained glass, ancient crosses, medieval fonts, wood carvings and sculptures old and new; Follow in the footsteps of northern saints such as Aidan and Cuthbert, to encounter solitude and inspiration in a rich variety of attractive villages and unspoilt corners; A superb selection of churches open to visitors, complete with photographs
Paperback 180 pages (June 1, 2002); Publisher: Sigma Press; Language: English; ISBN: 185058768X
Northumbria Insight Compact Guide  -  Roland Smith
Paperback 80 pages (March 27, 1998); Publisher: Insight Guides; Language: English; ISBN: 9624218102
Mountain Bike Guide - County Durham  -  Derek Purdy
Durham is a county little appreciated outside it's borders, or even by it's own inhabitants, but it contains riding of a quality not to be missed. This guide contains 28 routes of a wide variety, including easy family rides and features the two highest public roads in England. County Durham's disused railway cycle routes feature in this guide.
Paperback 160 pages (June 1, 1997); Publisher: The Ernest Press; Language: English; ISBN: 0948153474
Northumberland - Secret Places And Hidden Histories 
An exploration of the hidden wonders of Northumberland. Includes aerial views and landscape scenes.
DVD; Release Date: August 2, 2004; Starring: Keith Hartnell (Pres/Narr), et al. ; Region 0; PAL; ASIN: B000767R7Q

Transportation / How do I travel to Northumbria

 Durham Tees Valley Airport  -  Teesside Airport
 Newcastle Airport 

  Opodo  -   
Flight tickets Northumbria, Flight tickets Teesside, Flight tickets Newcastle.

 

 
Book cheap flights to Northumbria at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to Northumbria

 bmibaby.com  -  Cheap Flights to Durham from Cork  -  the airline with tiny fares
 Eastern Airways  -  flights to Durham from Aberdeen
 Ryanair  -  flights to Durham from Dublin

 
thetrainline is the fully impartial rail ticketing website owned by the Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group and National Express Group, providing the cheaper way to buy train tickets online. thetrainline provides fast, easy and secure access to timetables, tickets and fares for all National Rail journeys across the UK.

 South Tynedale Railway  -  Trains operating between Alston and Kirkhaugh
The South Tynedale Railway operates narrow gauge passenger trains along a 2¼ mile line along the scenic South Tyne valley between Alston, in Cumbria and Kirkhaugh, in Northumberland. Train services operate on certain dates between Easter and October and "Santa Special" trains on certain dates in December each year.

 - Coach Line Northumbria
You name it, they go there. National Express carries over 16 million passengers a year to 1000 different places in the UK, and thousands of others to destinations across Europe and Ireland. They run more services to and from UK airports than anyone else, and they even lay on special services to festivals like Glastonbury!

 Tyne and Wear Timetables  -  Bus
Bus timetables are provided for all local services operating within the Tyne and Wear area and also for some longer distance services operating to/from Tyne and Wear.

 Traveline north east Journey Planner
The traveline north east Journey Planner will allow you to plan any bus, coach, rail, metro and ferry journey anywhere in north east England. It also covers all buses and ferries in North Yorkshire and Cumbria, and travel anywhere in the UK on the national rail and coach networks.

 Maps International  -  Maps of Northumbria  
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.
 Multimap.com - street-level maps, road maps; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.


Links 

 Travel Insurance  -  online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Visit Northumbria  -  Tourist Board Northumbria
This is the England you always wanted to find: A stunning region of country walks and strolls along a picturesque coast. An historic area of castles and magnificent gardens with heritage around every corner. A friendly county of family hotels, country pubs and charming cottages. A relaxing England where you can take the time to savour every day.
Towns & Villages | History & Culture | Activities & Events | Places to Visit | Where to Stay | Travel & Transport
 Durham County
 Northumberland - Visitors Guide

 Alnwick District Council
Alnwick District lies in the heart of Northumberland, just 30 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. It is one of the most rural and sparsely populated districts in the UK.
Alnwick District is stunningly beautiful and stretches from the unspoilt wilds of the Northumberland National Park in the west to the outstanding beauty of the Heritage coast on the east. It encompasses, picturesque villages, historic market towns, ancient castles and spectacular scenery.
 Alnwick Town  -  see Alnwick District Council
Historic county town of Northumberland and seat of the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick is one of the most picturesque market towns in Northumberland and the best place in Britain to live (Country Life 2002). This medieval market town enjoyed economic prosperity with the development of the stagecoach, and became an important staging post, only a days ride from Berwick upon Tweed in the north and Newcastle upon Tyne in the south. In 1860 the number of inns in the town exceeded 50! a few of these still remain and today the cobbled streets and narrow alleys which once rang out with the clatter of hooves can be explored in peace. The fine stone buildings, which dominate the town, now house specialist shops which can be explored at your leisure.
 Berwick-upon-Tweed
No-one can visit the Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed without developing a taste for its magnificent Heritage Coastline and delightful fishing villages. 
The coastline is designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty, and as you travel its 25-mile length, it's easy to see why. There's tremendous variety too, with spectacular beaches interspersed with craggy cliffs and quiet, sheltered bays. Time the tides right and you can drive across the famous causeway to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, one of the strongholds of early Christianity in England.
Don't miss - as if you could - the dramatic and imposing castle at Bamburgh. Stunning is the only word for it.
 Darlington Borough Council - Tees Valley
Darlington and its surrounding areas provide a wide spectrum of activities, leisure and sporting events and places of cultural interest for all ages
 Durham City  -  Durham City Tourist Board
Durham is a compact city yet offers a wide range of facilities. A wide range of shops and restaurants co -exist happily with the Victorian Market. Much of Durham's shopping area is closed to traffic, making for a more relaxed atmosphere. Take time to sit in the cobbled Market Place and enjoy some of the street entertainment, particularly during July and August. The monthly Farmers' Market is a welcome new addition to the events calendar. Here you will find fresh local specialities to take back home. In the Spring and Summer, stunning floral displays adorn the City for which Durham regularly wins prizes.
Attractions | Where to Eat | Entertainment | Accommodation | Tourist Information | Facilities | Travel & Maps | Diary of Events
 Gateshead Council
Largest in area of the five Tyne and Wear districts. It comprises the mainly urban areas of Central Gateshead, Felling, Dunston and Blaydon and the more rural districts of Ryton, Whickham and parts of the Derwent Valley. Middlesbrough
The Town Hall is Victorian high gothic; the library is first-rate arts and crafts; the quite eccentric Transporter Bridge is utterly unique.
 Newcastle 
Newcastle - a great city - once in the forefront of 19th century industrial innovation, now, the forefront of technical innovation, leisure and culture.
Wander down to the transformed waterfront, the Quayside, now lined with stylish hotels, designer bars, restaurants and public art. The Gateshead Millennium Bridge, a work of art in itself, arches across the Tyne to link the City to Gateshead Quays and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
 Sunderland  -  Government -
It has one of very few national museums outside London - the National Glass Centre. It's just reinvented the Winter Garden idea, building a 21st century palm-house in a city-centre park; it has one of Britain's earliest Christian churches; and its University is a fashionable new hotspot for young film-makers. Durham was described by Bill Bryson as 'a perfect little city'. Its history shows in every cobble - it even used to be a principality! Its cathedral and castle are designated world heritage sites. And it's an international centre of learning, with one of Britain's leading universities.
 Tynedale District
Tynedale, in Northumberland, is the largest district council area in England. It's major towns include Hexham - a market town, Prudhoe - a growing industrial town, and the former mining town of Haltwhistle. There are commuter settlements within easy reach of Tyneside, parishes where forestry dominates and truly remote agricultural areas.
Tynedale contains much of the spectacular Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site and other areas of outstanding natural beauty, including large parts of the Northumberland National Park, the North Pennines, Kielder Forest (one of the largest forests in th UK) and Kielder Water (the largest man-made lake in Northern Europe).

 Hexham  -  central market town for the Tynedale district
 Morpeth  -  Morpethnet
 Stockton-on-Tees

 Alnwick Garden
The site on which The Alnwick Garden is built has had a colourful history, with gardens being built here designed by leading contemporary designers of their day. How fitting that The Alnwick Garden should have been classed by many as one of the finest public gardens to have been build in over 100 years.
 Beamish 
The North of England Open Air Museum, where the past comes to life. Beamish is unique. not an ordinary museum but a living, working experience of life as it was in the Great North in the early 1800s and 1900s.
Step on board of one of their trams and transport yourself into the past.
 Coast And Countryside
Starting at the coast, there are beaches inhabited only by oyster catchers. There are fishing villages like Seahouses and Craster, still working and full of character. Or there are seaside towns that grew - Alnmouth, Seaton Carew and Tynemouth grew into Victorian resorts; Saltburn went as far as pier-and-prom status.  And Whitley Bay became an icon of Thirties railway posters! Or what about the countryside? Market towns grew up around the castles - places like Alnwick, Barnard Castle and Staindrop all existed symbiotically with the Big House. There are tiny villages that used to really matter - Escomb's Saxon Church, and Warkworth's giant church show their past status.
 Durham and the Tees Valley  -  in the North East
An area of exciting contrasts. Whether you seek a country ramble over expansive moorland, sandy beaches and towering cliffs, shopping and fine dining or to discover the heritage of smugglers haunts and famous explorers. The Tees Valley area is so compact that you can really do all these things in a day or two.
The Tees Valley is at the heart of Captain Cook Country, on the doorstep of the North York Moors National Park, as well as a 'stone's throw' (30 miles) from Whitby, York, Durham and Newcastle.
The Tees Valley is an area encompassing the five historic boroughs of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland and Stockton on Tees.
 Kielder Water and Forest
Tucked away at the top of Northumberland, close to the Scottish Border and Hadrian's Wall, beautiful Kielder Water is the largest man-made lake in Europe. Kielder Forest, one of Britain's biggest nature resorts, is home to red squirrels, deer and rare birds.
The lake fringes and forest glades can best be explored by walking, cycling or on horseback, and there are many self-guided trails. Activities for all the family, a variety of accommodation, easy accessibility and closeness to villages and Northumberland National Park are among the many attractions, making Kielder ideal for holidays or leisure pursuits, including fishing, boating, riding and watersports.
 Lindisfarne  -  Holy Island
 Modern Cities And Ancient Forests
And nearby, there are the cities - rich with new architecture and art, humming with activity, bristling with shops and restaurants. There's open country, too - a National Park and two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty; ancient forests like Kielder and Hamsterley; moorland and sheep-dotted pastures. Rivers like the Wear and the Tees rise high in the Pennines in exquisite wilderness.
 Tees Forest
The Tees Forest is one of twelve community forests in England.
 Tees Valley  -  Destination Tees Valley
From the salmon rich reaches of the upper Tees to the coastal beauty and character laden sea ports. From the Transporter Bridge's tribute to the area's engineering heritage to the untouched pleasures of the green lanes. From lighthouses and ships to industrial innovation and a resilient enterprising spirit. They've got a lot to shout about in the Tees Valley.
 Tyne and Wear

Cuisine

The staple foods of England are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of the English dishes are based on these foods.

Bacon Roly-Poly, Bangers and Mash, Black Pudding, Bubble & Squeak, Cornish Pasties, Cottage Pie, Fish & Chips, Gingerbread, Hot Cross Buns, Hot Pot, Kedgeree new, Ploughman's Lunch, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken, Roast lamb, Shepherd's Pie, Sponge Cake, Toad-in-the-Hole, Tom Collins, Trifle, Yorkshire Pudding.

 Traditional foods in England
English Food by Jane Grigson, Gillian Zeiner (Illustrator), Sophie Grigson
Paperback 400 pages; Penguin Books Ltd; ISBN: 0140273247
Favourite Pudding Recipes: Traditional Ways to a Man's Heart - Birkett Foster
Paperback 48 pages; Publisher: J Salmon; ISBN: 1898435685

History of Northumbria

Northumbria played a vital role in the industrial revolution. The region's coalfields fuelled industrial expansion in other areas of the country, and the need to transport the coal from the collieries to the Tyne lead to the development of the first railways. Many prominent engineers hailed from the area. See WikipediA for more.

 Bedes' World
Bede began his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731, in the days of Roman Britain, when Christianity first arrived in this island, and traced the thread of Christianity through the departure of the Romans, the arrival of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes and the development and eventual conversion of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The Age of Bede exhibition follows the pattern of Bede's narrative.
 Hadrian's Wall Country
Nearly 2000 years ago in 122 AD, the Emperor Hadrian embarked on a huge undertaking: to mark the northernmost boundary of Roman Britain with an unusually long fortified wall. Skirmishing tribes were contained behind it for over 350 years and Hadrian's name written indelibly into the history of this evocative and diverse part of the UK.
Today, parts of Hadrian's Wall are still visible; the line of it stretching from Wallsend in the east to Bowness-on -Solway in the west, and the fortifications continuing down the west coast to Ravenglass.
 Train Rail - History, Heritage & Fun
Train Trail is eight uniquely different train attractions set within splendid North East countryside and easily presented for you to create the perfect day out. Attractions are individually priced, several are totally free to enter.
 Vindolanda
Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum bring history alive. Vindolanda is a fascinating Roman fort and civilian settlement lying just to the south of Hadrian's Wall. The Roman Army Museum, situated beside one of the best preserved sections of the Wall, offers a captivating insight into the garrisons of Hadrian's Wall. Don't forget to check out what is happening at the moment on our excavation news page.

Music, Art & Culture, Entertainment

The North East of England has many of its own traditions, not found elsewhere in England, including the rapper sword dance, Clog dance and the Northumbrian smallpipes [ a type of bagpipe ] as well as its own tartan (often referred to in Scotland as the Shephard's Tartan). Traditional Northumbrian music sounds similar to Scottish.

Northumberland Rant: Traditional Music from the Edge of England 
To hear a song sample, click on the song titles.
Audio CD; (October 25, 1999); Label: Smithsonian Folkways; ASIN: B00000K53R
 Folk Archive Resource North East  -  home of Northumbrian music online
 Lindisfarne Gospels
The Lindisfarne Gospels are one of the treasures of the Christian Church in Northumbria. They were produced in the 7th. century by a monk called Eadfrith. He became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721 at a time which is sometimes called the "Golden Age of Northumbria" when learning and artistic skills were at a peak. This was the age in which the Venerable Bede wrote his "Ecclesiastical History" and in which the great Celtic Saints like Aidan and Cuthbert carried out their missionary work for the conversion of the North.
 The Northumbrian Association
In a period of extraordinary intellectual development and creativity in the seventh and eighth centuries, the Angle kingdom of Northumbria (UK) became the cradle of English Christianity, culture and language......

 English folk and traditional music
Guide to Internet resources relating to English folk music
 Traditional music & Folk related links  -  by area

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 Noth Northumberland Online
North Northumberland Online covers the beautiful area from Alnwick to Berwick upon Tweed in England's most northern county. Steeped in history, this quiet and peaceful region offers great scenery, spectacular castles and a warm welcome to visitors...

 The Castles of England  -  Information Castles

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