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Beamish Hall HotelLocal AttractionsBeamish, The North of England Open Air MuseumSet in 200 acres of countryside, award winning Beamish recreates life in the early 1800s and 1900s. Costumed staff welcome visitors to a 1913 town street, colliery village, farm and railway station; a display of how people lived and worked. Ride on early Distance: 0.66 Miles Gibside The important early 18th-century landscaped park contains a chapel - an outstanding example of Palladian architecture, built to a design by James Paine as the mausoleum for members of the Bowes family. It stands at one end of the Great Walk of Turkey oaks Distance: 3.33 Miles Tanfield Railway A 3-mile working steam railway and the oldest existing railway in the world. The Causey Arch, the first large railway bridge of its era, is the centrepiece of a deep wooded valley, with picturesque walks. You can ride in carriages that first saw use in Victorian times Distance: 1.54 Miles Derwentcote Steel Furnace An eighteenth-century steel-making furnace Distance: 5.06 Miles Riverside Cricket Ground Distance: 5.11 Miles Beamish Museum Distance: 0.66 Miles Gibside Distance: 3.19 Miles Chester-Le-Street Train Station Distance: 4.34 Miles Dunston Train Station Distance: 4.49 Miles MetroCentre Train Station Distance: 4.93 Miles |
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