Morpeth & Coast

Enjoy an excursion to the Historic market town of Morpeth.  With its quaint cobbled streets Bustling high streets and its modern Sanderson shopping centre, you can shop until you drop.  Morpeth town has an eclectic mix of shops with even more along Bridge Street and Newgate Street.   There's also Morpeth Castle and the 13th Century Chantry that houses the Bagpipe Museum and Arts Gallery.

Wander the woodland paths of colourful  Carlisle Park, where romantic river rowing on the River Wansbeck. Enjoy fun for all the family at the paddling pool, play area and aviary. The William Turner Garden in Carlisle Park dedicated to 'The Father of English Botany’, is an  idyllic, peaceful plot to admire flourishing fauna. A statue to suffragette Emily Davison sits proudly in Carlisle Park and you can visit her grave at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, south of the River Wansbeck.  After spending some time in Morpeth we return via the north east coast with a stop in one of the coastal towns.