Tell Your Parents Where To Go! Northumberland
Museums
Woodhorn Museum
800 years of history with fantastic events and exhibitions at award winning museum.
Northumberland Musem & Archives, Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, Ashington, NE63 9YF.
Tel: 01670 624455
Opening times: Wed - Sun (plus Mon & Tues during school holidays)
April - September: 10am - 5pm
October - March: 10am - 4pm
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
International centre for contemporary art. Offers a constantly changing programme of exhibitions & events.
Opened in 2002 in a converted flour mill on the South bank of the River Tyne. It was the 2001 venue for The Turner Prize.
Gateshead Quays, South Shore Road, Gateshead, NE8 3BA.
Tel: 0191 4781810
Open Daily: 10am - 6pm (except Tuesdays 10.30am - 6pm)
Walks
www.walkinginnorthumberland.co.uk May 22nd 10/1pm
NSPCC Walk 01665 577630 Ratcheugh Crag and Observatory.Dogs.Children ok.
www.shepherdswalks.co.uk Each Friday 1st Jul/5th Aug 01670620306 along Northumberland Coastal Path: Cresswell Walkworth/Walkworth Craster/Craster Seahouses/Seahouses Belford/Belford .......etc
Golf
Alnmouth Golf Club 01665 830231 overlooks the splendours of both Foxton & Alnmouth Bay. Alnmouth Village Golf Course is England's oldest 9 hole course.
Bamburgh is 20 minutes away and hilly but with stunning views.
Embleton is 15 minutes away with fabulous views of Dunstunburgh Castle and rest of coast and will take dogs.
Goswick is also a well known course up the coast.
Life drawing classes are available at Barter Books.
There is a secret beach through the farm at Longhoughton where you put a donation in the wall slot for the church. You can drive right to the beach with chairs picnics and rugs. Stay as long as you like
Alnmouth Arts Festival
Alnmouth Volcano Festival
Alnmouth Raft Race
Alnwick Music Festival first week Aug
Alnmouth Family Fun Day last Sat in July
Felton Gallery 45
Regular Art courses 01670 783424
Blagdon Hall open garden NE13
Mindrum House open garden TD12
Whitton Grange open garden NE65
Lilburn Tower open garden NE66
2010 raft race entry
What to do?
All of our properties are close to fabulous beaches or woodland walks, so pack up a picnic and enjoy the wonderful British summer countryside. Bathe in nature...............we will be adding Field sound recordings to further illustrate our properties in 2025.
For all rental enquiries please contact May Rhodes on
updateholidays-mayrhodes@outlook.com or 07474449190 or Linda Burrows
07801651783 at pinkceb@aol.com.
Air B and B.
Dunstarn Cottage, Croft Cottage and 85 Queen Street and Gibbes Cottages can also be booked via air b and b.
Over the years we have hosted a walking theatre performance and two summer outdoor theatre events, as well as assisted Cinematography students to make a film for Leeds University and enabled Vet students to obtain valuable practical work experience, if you have a project in mind, we'd be pleased to discuss things.........l shall be attending a field recording workshop to learn to create sound maps for all our properties in 2025. We are currently investigating working with British hedgehog trust.
We host weekend gun dog training courses for beginners and advanced through www.
Kirkbournespaniels.co. uk at the farm.
Last updated 19th oct 2024
Web photos courtesy Linda Burrows
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