North-East History Tour

[please note this article was originally written in 1994 so may be a little out of date – though, in view of the subject matter, probably ...

Winter’s Gibbet, or Stob, at Steng Cross, near Elsdon, is one of the region’s most infamous landmarks. It stands, somewhat eerily, in ...

© Copyright   Andrew Curtis   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . Scarcely can an ancient site have...

© Copyright   Ken Bagnall   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . In the shadow of the mighty Yeaveri...

A little off the B6525 to the NE of Doddington lies the hamlet of Wrangham. One may not immediately associate this rural backwater – now l...

Situated somewhat conspicuously slap-bang in the middle of a housing estate in the western suburbs of Newcastle-upon-Tyne sits a fascinati...

You don’t have to look far into the history of Wrekenton to discover that it appears to have been named by a historian. The famous antiqua...

On a small prominence at roughly the spot where the Bowes Railway meets the southern-most extremity of Eighton Banks lies, possibly, the b...

The village of Great Stainton is so named, one assumes, to distinguish it from lesser known – and smaller – places of the same name sca...

The village of Sadberge , a little to the east of Darlington , has one of those ancient-sounding place-names that you just know has a lon...

Beowulf, that shady mythical figure from Dark Age Scandinavia, has found himself transformed, almost, into a great British hero thanks to...

In 2004, excavation work began on one of the most remarkable archaeological finds ever made in England .  At Street House Farm, a littl...

The arc of coast betwixt Saltburn and Filey was once dotted with Roman signal stations, built in the second half of the 4 th century to ...

The Castle Eden Beaker, now housed at the British Museum , is a classic example of what is commonly known as a ‘claw beaker’ – for ob...

   One of the world’s greatest historical treasures, the Codex Amiatinus is the oldest surviving one-volume Latin Bible in the world. One o...

  Well, sort of. It is certainly the oldest stained glass that is known to still form part of a window – but we’ve cheated a bit, because ...

Cambois – another of those odd-sounding place-names of the North-East – is situated on the Northumberland coast, roughly equidistant from N...