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Slow Durham travel guide. Holiday tips and tourist advice cover heritage attractions, industrial history, museums, walking, wildlife, nature reserves, accommodation, restaurants. Thorough coverage includes Durham city, Heritage Coast Path, Weardale, Upper Teesdale, Washington Old Hall, Castle Barnard, High Force waterfall, old railway trails.
List of contents
Going Slow in Durham
Chapter 1 Durham
Introduction, How this book is arranged
Chapter 2 Durham City
Getting around, Palace Green: Durham Cathedral and Castle, The Bailey Colleges, Market Place, Along the Wear, Old Elvet and the Miners' Gala, University Botanic Garden, Oriental Museum
Chapter 3 Vale of Durham
Getting around, Finchale Priory, Chester-le-Street, Beamish Museum, Tanfield Railway, Lanchester & the Browney Valley, Deerness Valley, Brancepeth, Binchester Roman Fort, Escomb, Bishop Auckland, Shildon & its railway museum, Thrislinton National Nature Reserve, Sedgefield
Chapter 4 Durham Heritage Coast
Getting around, Crimdon, Blackhall Rocks, Easington Colliery and around, Castle Eden Dene National Nature Reserve, Seaham
Chapter 5 Derwentside
Getting around, Blanchland, Derwent Reservoir, Derwent Gorge and Muggleswick Woods National Nature Reserve, Edmundbyers, Consett, Shotley Bridge, Ebchester
Chapter 6 Weardale
Getting around, Wolsingham, Hamsterley Forest, Frosterley, Stanhope, Eastgate, Rookhope, Westgate, St John's Chapel, Ireshopeburn, Wearhead, Cowshill, Allenheads, Killhope Lead Mining Museum, Nenthead
Chapter 7 Teesdale
Getting around, Barnard Castle, Bowes Museum, Egglestone Abbey, Rokeby Park, Staindrop and Raby Castle, Cotherstone, Romaldkirk, Eggleston, Middleton-in-Teesdale, Teesdale's reservoirs, Hannah's Meadow Nature Reserve, Newbiggin-in-Teesdale, Bowlees & Gibson's Cave & Waterfall,
High Force waterfall, Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve, Cow Green Reservoir and Cauldron Snout
Accommodation
Index
About the author
Gemma grew up in the North East and widely explored Durham's coast, city and countryside while researching Bradt's first guide to the region over a decade ago. She has written extensively on the North East for national publications, and is the author of the Bradt travel guide, Slow Northumberland. She enjoys backpacking, wild camping, Britain's railway heritage, vintage shops and salvage yards, North East folk music, bird-watching, long-distance hiking and cycle rides, churches, and photography.
She has hiked the Durham Coast Path, the Pennine Way in Northern England and cycled many of Durham's railway trails and off-road routes. Her interest in wildlife has taken her to many remote corners of Teesdale and the Allen Valleys in search of upland flowering plants and wading birds. Gemma is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Summary
Slow Durham travel guide. Holiday advice and tourist information cover heritage attractions, industrial history, museums, walking, wildlife, national nature reserves, accommodation, restaurants. Thorough coverage includes Durham city, Heritage Coast Path, hills, Weardale, Upper Teesdale, Barnard Castle, High Force waterfall, old railway trails.
Foreword
. Best-selling and award-winning series: sales of Slow travel guides have almost doubled during the pandemic (2021 vs 2019; source: Nielsen)
. Written by travel-writer Gemma Hall who grew up in the region
. The only comprehensive guide to Durham alone, a county with half-a-million residents that was visited by 20 million people in 2019
About Bradt Travel Guides
. Founded in 1974, Bradt is now the largest independent guidebook publisher in the UK with over 200 titles in print
. Serial winner of the Gold award for Best Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards
. Bradt guides are written by authors who really know their destinations. Many are resident there, or have been visiting regularly over a number of years
. Each new Bradt guide is backed by a dedicated press and social media campaign
