Beamish

Beamish is five miles west of the main north-south transport corridor, with the A1(M) and East Coast main railway line - nearest station Chester-le-Street.
In summer a bus runs direct to the museum from Newcastle via Chester-le-Street.

The museum is actually big enough to have its own tram network.

• Beamish Open Air Museum

  phone: +44 191 370 4000
  address: DH9 0RG
  Excellent industrial museum, recreating life in the area during the 19th and early 20th C.

• Shepherd and Shepherdess

  address: Cranberry Bog Road
  18th century pub restaurant

• Beamish Hall

  phone: +44 1207 233733
  address: Coppy Lane
  18th-century country house

• Beamish Park Hotel

  address: Beamishburn Road, NE16 5EG

• Bobby Shafto Caravan Parkstatic caravans for and a site for touring caravans. Some static caravans allow dogs.

• Hotel 52

  phone: +44 1207 263790
  address: Joicey Square, Stanley, DH9 0PG

• South to historic Durham
• North to buzzy Newcastle
• West to the old mining community of Consett
• East to the 1964 new town of Washington