✨ Free Attractions to visit in the North East ✨

We have some fantastic Free entry attractions in the North East. There's loads of really good places to visit and it took a while to choose the below. I have picked 5 places in each area to give you plenty of ideas.

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Sunderland

✨Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens

✨National Glass Centre

✨Fans Museum

✨St Peter's church

✨Visit the beaches at Seaburn/Roker you can also head over to one of the play parks to fill more of the day.

Gateshead

✨Shipley Art Gallery

✨Saltwell park

✨Baltic

✨Bill Quay farm

✨St Mary's heritage centre

Durham

✨Durham Cathedral

✨The Story

✨Oriental museum

✨Archaeology Museum

✨Locomotion

Teesside

✨Hopetown Darlington

✨Teessaurus Park

✨Dorman Museum

✨MIMA

✨Stewart Park

Northumberland

✨Grace Darling museum

✨Hexham abbey

✨Barter Books

✨Northumberlandia

✨Kielder Forest - Forestry England

Newcastle

✨Great North Museum: Hancock

✨Discovery Museum

✨Newcastle Cathedral

✨Laing Art Gallery

✨Lit & Phil

A few ideas for further away

North Yorkshire

 ✨National Railway Museum - York

 ✨Filey Museum

 ✨Boggle hole fossil hunt

 ✨Falling Foss

 ✨York's cat trail

Don't forget some attractions offer free entry for Universal credit recipients

Use any annual passes you may have - for us, our most used annual passes include:

National Trust , English Heritage , Beamish Museum , The Deep , Alnwick Castle , WWT Washington Wetland Centre.

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