Welcome to
North East England

Our amazing North East England Blue Badge Guides can’t wait to meet you.

We can’t wait to see you stand on the very edge of the Roman Empire at Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site and hear you say how impressed you are by what you see. We want you to watch the fleeting performance of the mechanical Silver Swan at The Bowes Museum and see your reaction to the elegance of this remarkable automaton. We will show you where you can buy old fashioned confectionary at Beamish Museum the taste of which will take you right back to your childhood days.   And we will take you to special, atmospheric locations such as the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Jarrow and Durham where many centuries ago our Northern Saints once lived whilst doing their bit to shape early Christianity.

In our regional art galleries and museums we will stand beside you to explain the how, the why and the downright odd. We will show you a Greek temple in the Northumberland countryside and a French chateau in County Durham.  In Tyne and Wear we will take you to the Baltic and in Tees Valley you can sail the world in the company of a famous explorer.

Our inspirational gardens complement fine country houses where the lives and achievements of the region’s world famous inventors and scientists can be explored.    And as for our castles… Well we will let you make your own mind up when you see the castles at Alnwick, Bamburgh, Durham City and Bishop Auckland (we do castles rather well, if you don’t mind us saying so).

And there is more. We will explain our region’s sporting successes, food and drink traditions and musical heritage. Some of us might even sing you a local song or two.

And we will help you decide where to find those all-important local souvenirs which will help make your holiday memories last even longer.

At the end of your visit, when you think you have seen it all, we will come up with another idea to entice you to stay just that little bit longer or return just that bit more quickly. Because North East England is like that. It begins to get under your skin and one visit is never enough.

What are you waiting for?   Whether you are part of the travel trade or cruise market sectors, a conference organiser or an independent traveller, a family group or an international visitor we would love to hear from you.