Book : Middlesbrough
and Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees and Redcar (Explorer Maps).
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Beamish - The North of England Open Air Museum, Co. Durham Tel:
01207 231811Visit the town, colliery village, farm, railway station,
Pockerley Manor and 1825 railway, recreating life in the North
East in the early 1800's and 1900's. Beamish Museum is an open
air museum where you can go underground in a drift mine, visit
the pit cottages, Victorian schoolroom, a Victorian dentist and
an old fashioned sweet shop. Step on board our trams and we'll
transport you into the past. www.beamish.org.uk. About 9 miles
northwest of Durham.
Sedgefield Racecourse,
Stockton-on-Tees TS21 2HW Tel: 01740 621925 Hosting 20 Jump race
meetings and spanning 11 months of the year, Sedgefield Racecourse
is one of Britain’s most popular racecourses. About 10 miles
west of Hartlepool.
Billingham Beck Valley Country Park Tel: 01642 360376 Billingham
Beck Valley is one of Stockton Borough's most interesting areas
of countryside with its colourful meadows, ponds, marsh and woodland.
Designated a Local Nature Reserve in 1992, this valuable pocket
of countryside has been preserved as a haven for wildlife and
a place where people can explore, enjoy and learn about the countryside.
About 8 miles southwest of Hartlepool.
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