North England
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The Lake District National Park Authority has backed a public consultation on requiring planning permission for temporary campsites. Here is what is changing, why, and what happens next.
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A Roman fort on a fellside spur above the Hardknott Pass, garrisoned by soldiers from the Dalmatian coast and, by English Heritage’s account, abandoned within about 20 years.
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A headland fortress above the North Sea where Henry II raised a great tower, Piers Gaveston was besieged and a Civil War bombardment brought down half the keep. In 1914 German warships shelled its walls.
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A Greek temple on a Wearside hill, built for ‘Radical Jack’ Lambton, the man who drafted the Great Reform Act. Free to climb the hill any day; on a handful of summer dates, you can squeeze up a secret staircase inside one of its columns to the top.
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England’s second-largest inhabited castle, home to the same family for over 700 years, a genuine Wars of the Roses battleground, and — for a certain generation — the unmistakable exterior of Hogwarts itself.
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Britain’s longest show cave, discovered by a Cambridge student following the sound of an underground waterfall, and not fully opened up until Cornish tin miners finished the job seventy years later.
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England’s most powerful waterfall, still slowly eating its way upstream through 700 metres of gorge it has carved since the last Ice Age.
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Step inside a recreated Cavern Club, cross Abbey Road’s zebra crossing and follow four Liverpool lads from the Casbah to the world stage — The Beatles Story is Liverpool’s essential Beatles museum.
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A 70-metre wall of white limestone carved by a waterfall that vanished thousands of years ago and, for a few hours in 2015, briefly came back.
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A 200-tonne steel figure that half the country hated before it went up, built on the site of a coal mine, that ended up saving Gateshead’s cultural reputation.