Where do you fancy exploring today?

where do you fancy exploring today?

As a centre for exploring the North East, Hepple Hill Cottage is perfectly positioned. Our cottage sits on the edge of Edmundbyres Common and is surrounded by farmland, but it is only two minutes away from the A68.

All these wonderful destinations are easily accessible.

Under 30 minutes away:

Pow Hill Country Park – 4 minutes
Derwent Reservoir – 4 minutes
Blanchland – 9 minutes
Slaley Hall (golf/leisure) – 13 minutes
Stanhope – 13 minutes
Wheelbirks Dairy Farm/ice cream/playpark – 14 minutes
Consett – 15 minutes
Knitsley Farm Shop, Consett – 17 minutes
Corbridge – 20 minutes
Corbridge Roman Museum – 20 minutes
Hexham – 26 minutes
Chesters Roman Fort and Museum – 29 minutes
Beamish, the Living Museum of the North – 29 minutes
Metro Centre (Gateshead) – 30 minutes

Under 40 minutes:

Durham City – 33 minutes
Newcastle – 35 minutes
Vindolanda Roman Museum – 37 minutes
The Sage (Gateshead) – 38 minutes
The Sill (Once Brewed) – 38 minutes
Housesteads (Hadrian’s Wall) – 39 minutes
Barnard Castle – 40 minutes

Under 60 minutes:

Alston (highest market town in England) – 44 minutes
Tynemouth – 50 minutes
Whitley Bay – 50 minutes
Hamsterley Forest (mountain biking) – 50 minutes
Cragside, Rothbury – 60 minutes
Alnwick – 60 minutes
Carter Bar, Jedburgh – 60 minutes
Druridge Bay – 60 minutes
Alnmouth – 60 minutes

More than 60 minutes

Kielder Forest – 1 hour 9 minutes
Penrith (gateway to the lakes) – I hour 18 minutes
Seahouses – I hour 20 minutes
Bamburgh – I hour 20 minutes
Holy Island – I hour 30 minutes

What about one of these wonderful destinations?

(top row from left to right) Weardale, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham

(middle row from left to right) Blanchland, Stanhope Fell (Weardale), Derwent Reservoir

(bottom row from left to right) Barnard Castle, Corbridge, Bamburgh

Elizabeth Haynes

Elizabeth Haynes is the owner of Hepple Hill Cottage. She is an experienced writer and has a poetry collection coming out this spring. A Pease Myers Pastoral is inspired by the farm where she lives and works – just over the hill from Hepple Hill in Stanhope.