Lots to see and on a Durham Holiday Cottage
A holiday in a cottage County Durham offers the chance to sample the variety of natural and man-made attractions of this beautiful area. Without doubt the jewel in the crown of this community is the city of Durham and the cathedral, which together with the nearby Castle, a World Heritage Site since 1987. According to many the finest example of Norman church architecture in England, the cathedral dominates the old city on a rocky peninsula, where the Rive be almost WearCurves back on itself.
Following the river upstream in the direction of its source will take you to the dark, but beautiful northern Pennines. This is a remote and sparsely populated region of moors and valleys, home to an industrial heritage of lead mines and quarries, with admiration for the people who populate the work here in this uncompromising landscape.
to understand fully the workings of a community in the 19 Century in Durham, visit the Beamish Open Air Museum. With guides in authenticperiod costumes and trams serve different parts of the site is careful enough to avoid a romanticized view of the past. Another mighty rivers of the north, the teas, runs through the county of Durham.
Above the pretty market town of Middleton-in-Teesdale, where it is a good selection of holiday homes Durham Dales attraction Cauldron Snout attracts visitors. The river growls his way through this natural property, which form what is considered the longest waterfall in England, will onlyto cascade a few miles later on the aptly named High Force – one of the most spectacular.
Further downstream lies Barnard Castle, a market town with impressive old shop fronts, a cobbled market square and just out of town, the French chateau-style Bowes Museum, houses a collection of outstanding European fine and decorative art, with works by Goya, El Greco and Canaletto .