North East

Enter the world of Lord and Lady Armstrong, and discover their incredible garden. Explore a vast rhododendron forest, a pinetum of towering conifers, rocky crags, open lakes and more.

Gibside is one of a few surviving 18th-century designed landscapes and was fashioned with two things in mind: spectacular views and ‘wow’ moments.

A place of great theatre and drama, once home to the larger than life Delaval family. Explore the gardens, including the new South East Gardens, and follow the progress of our project to reintroduce some of the spectacle that the Delavals were known for.

Discover Wallington, where an historical house meets rolling hills, woodlands and walled gardens. Take a scenic walk and look out for native wildlife like red squirrels and nuthatches.

Get outdoors and enjoy the best of springtime on a walk in the North East. Enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of spring as blooming daffodils to colourful bluebells line your route and wildlife wakes up from their winter slumbers.

A hidden garden, a Pinetum on a grand scale, or an eighteenth-century landscaped garden - find a summer garden to explore in the North East.

Built in 1871 Souter was the first lighthouse in the world purpose built to use electricity. Learn more about it and the treacherous seas, fog on the Tyne and the family legacy.

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was a local boy who made good, explore his connection to the Wallington estate.

The history of Seaton Delaval Hall spans a thousand years and is as dramatic as any theatrical production ever staged...

As part of the Heritage Lottery Fund-supported project to conserve Seaton Delaval Hall we’re undertaking woodland management works to improve the health of the landscape and restore lost elements of the eighteenth century design.

Durham Argus butterfly project makes home improvements for a very special resident