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Village in County Durham, England
Photo: Barry Skeates from newbury, UK, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Beamish is a village in County Durham in northeast England. The village is just a straggle of miners' houses and the only reason to visit is the extensive open-air museum.
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Excellent open-air museum, recreating life in the area from 1820 to the 1950s.
Standard-gauge heritage railway, it's been variously horse-drawn, rope-winched by static steam engines, and from 1881 steam-hauled. On Sundays trains puff 3 miles between East Tanfield and Sunniside, with the main display of locos and rolling stock midway at Marley Hill.
18th-century pub and restaurant.
Reliable Italian.
18th-century country house, now a comfy hotel.
Old coaching inn on a bypassed loop of the main road to Stanley.
Clean friendly budget hotel.
Glamping in old railway vans on a quiet friendly site. Open all year.
formerly Bobby Shafto
Open March-Jan, with static caravans for long and short stays, pods and pitches for touring caravans. The access lane is poor and the site slopes, bring a few bricks to level up.
Comfy mid-price hotel in a quiet spot off A6076, a mile north of the museum.
Beamish is on A693 five miles west of the main north-south transport corridor, with the A1(M) and East Coast main railway line. The nearest railway station is Chester-le-Street.
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