Low Urpeth Farm Holiday Cottages - Beamish Durham Newcastle Gateshead

23/09/2026

23/09/2026

Love a stroll around Durham...

22/09/2026

Bishop Auckland Harvest Festival returns for a weekend of growing, making and seasonal celebration🎨

Families are invited to celebrate the autumn season when Bishop Auckland’s Harvest Festival returns to the grounds of Auckland Palace on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September.

Taking place from 11am to 4pm and free to attend, the two-day festival will bring together growing, food, entertainment and hands-on activities, with the much-loved Bishop Auckland Horticultural & Produce Show at the heart of the weekend.
Presented as part of Hearth, the community regeneration programme delivered in partnership with The Auckland Project, the festival will celebrate the skills, traditions and creativity of Bishop Auckland and the surrounding area.

The Bishop Auckland Horticultural & Produce Show will run from 12pm to 4pm, showcasing traditional horticultural and produce entries and giving local growers, makers and bakers the chance to put their skills to the test.

New for this year is Plot to Plate: Potato Pot Luck, a special competition completing a growing journey which began at the Bishop Auckland Food Festival earlier this year. Children who planted heritage potatoes during the festival are being invited to bring their crop back for judging at 2pm on Saturday.

Across the grounds, families can also take part in the returning Growlympic Games, featuring countryside-inspired challenges including the ever-popular welly wanging, alongside harvest crown making, hands-on apple pressing and traditional side-stall games including Hook-a-Duck and Roll-a-Ball.

Live and roving entertainment will add to the atmosphere throughout the weekend. The Ran Tanners will perform traditional Georgian and Victorian music on fiddles, bagpipes and squeezeboxes, while Fairly Famous Family will bring a pair of giant comedy gardeners to the Palace grounds with wheelbarrows, lawn tricks and interactive entertainment.

Their Grow Your Own Show will combine comedy, fruit juggling and vegetable cookery, with a special appearance from Peter Rabbit. Saturday’s programme will also form part of the Bishop Auckland Heritage Festival, bringing the town’s history, stories and traditions into the wider harvest celebrations.

Visitors will be able to enjoy food and drink throughout the weekend, including fresh, stone baked sourdough pizzas from the Palace Pizza Van and freshly baked bread, pies, doughnuts and sweet treats from the Farm Shop.

22/09/2026

22/09/2026

We had such a wonderful time visiting the Museum of Archeology and catching the Gone But Not Forgotten exhibition! Just a heads-up that this exhibition officially closes on 28 September 2026. If you're planning a trip to Palace Green Library, remember that it's free to explore and houses the Cosins Library, Museum of Archeology, World Heritage Centre, and the One Durham Exhibition. You can also book a Durham Castle Tour online in advance or grab tickets on the day at the library, depending on availability!

Durham University Things To Do

The temporary exhibition 'Gone But Not Forgotten' comes to an end Monday 28th September. The exhibition brings together museum specimens and original artwork by Stephen Livingstone to explore the stories of animals that have disappeared from Britain or become increasingly rare.

Drawing on rarely displayed objects from Durham University's Natural Science Collection, the exhibition features skeletons, skulls, taxidermy and paintings that reveal the traces animals leave behind and invite us to imagine the lives they once lived. From the giant deer and Great Auk to wolves and lynx, these remarkable species help tell a story of change, loss and survival.

By using art and natural history, the exhibition encourages visitors to look more closely at the natural world, reflect on Britain's changing wildlife, and consider why these stories still matter today.

The exhibition includes a loan of a Great Auk specimen from the Natural History Society of Northumbria, helping to showcase one of Britain's most iconic extinct birds.

Entry to the Museum of Archaeology is free.

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22/09/2026

Wow

Capturing the reflections of our beautiful cathedral on a clear evening in Durham.

21/09/2026

Running a race with a great medal every month...

2nd Race of the Month was at Herrington Park last Sunday.

Half Marathon completed at the Rubber Duck Race

Loved the medal!! Best one yet and I have a few of their medals!

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19/09/2026

Roker, Sunderland....

A bit windy but a lovely walk..now for food!

18/09/2026

FREE Entry for a Grandparent when accompanied by a fully paying child this weekend (September 19th + 20th).