15 Best Sightseeing Attractions In County Durham

Locomotion and Hopetown Darlington both appear here and both are filed as museums, so the county gives you two goes at broadly one subject. Few families will want both in a single trip and probably not in a single year. Pick on the drive from home and on which suits your children's ages, then hold the other back for when the first has worn off, rather than doing them one after the other and blunting each.

HMS Trincomalee 1817 is recorded as outdoor and not as indoor, which is worth knowing before anyone gets dressed. Our indoor and outdoor fields are among the weaker things we hold, and this looks like a case where the flag tells only part of the story, so the safe reading is to plan for open deck and count any shelter as a bonus. Spare layers are easy to take off and impossible to conjure once you are aboard.

It leans thin, and there is more value in saying so than in dressing it up. Fifteen entries under a heading this broad means whole towns appear nowhere on the page, and it means the list works better as a set of anchor days out than as a source of a spare Sunday. The smaller and more local a sight is — a church tower, a town trail, a viewpoint with a plaque — the less likely it is to have reached our records at all.

Not the cathedral, on most days. A very young child gets little from a building whose whole point is scale and quiet, and the adults get less again. Crook Hall & Gardens is recorded with indoor and outdoor space alike, which for a toddler is the more forgiving shape: somewhere to walk, somewhere to sit and no expectation of hush. Keep the bigger set pieces for the point at which a child can take in what stands in front of them.