North-East History Tour

Edward ‘Ned’ Coulson was born at Broadstone Cottages, near The Anchor Hotel , Haydon Bridge, in 1754. Ned was an eccentric character – an...

To the immediate SW of the Hexham roundabout of the A69, on the north bank of the River Tyne, stands a small mansion by the name of The...

When it comes to early Christianity in the North-East – and Hexham in particular – most casual history enthusiasts look no further than t...

© Copyright   Mike Quinn   and licensed  for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . When we think in terms of historica...

Image from Archaeologia Aeliana 5 th Series, Vol. 1, 1973 In the garden of 3 Rede Avenue, Hexham, in 1971, two small stone heads w...

Mickley, Northumberland, is not a very large village. It is known, historically, as the birthplace of the famous engraver, Thomas Bewi...

Situated in a loop on the north bank of the River Tyne, the settlement of Bywell is an odd little place. Now strangely vacant, yet still ...

One of Riding Mill’s most prominent landmarks these days is The Wellington Hotel public house, sitting, as it does, on the north side of...

When a Quaker eccentric named David Richardson purchased the farmhouse known as Wheelbirks a couple of miles SW of Stocksfield in the 1880...

High on the moors to the east of Allendale Town can be found not one, but two little landmarks by the name of Stobs or Stobb Cross. The mo...

© Copyright   Oliver Dixon   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . A surprisingly substantial ruin li...

© Copyright   Mike Quinn   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . On the edge of Edmundbyers’ village ...

The Lord Crewe Arms , taken by the  author  in 1991. Other than the cars,  not a great deal has changed. One of the North-East’s...

The village of Hunstanworth, a little to the SW of Blanchland overlooking the valley of the River Derwent, holds a unique status among al...

© Copyright   Peter McDermott   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . A mile to the west of the remot...

One of the most notable archaeological sites ever discovered here in the North-East of England no longer exists. It is (or rather was) th...

© Copyright   Paul Buckingham   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . Stanhope’s famous fossil tree c...

© Copyright   Helen Wilkinson   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . Anyone familiar with the upper ...

© Copyright   Andrew Curtis   and licensed for   reuse   under this   Creative Commons Licence . Of all the ‘holy wells’ we have h...

[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 ...