Durham Dales Centre Visitor Information Point

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There’s a warm welcome waiting for you at Durham Dales Centre Visitor Information Point. We can help you make the most of your time whatever your reason for visiting. Situated within the Durham Dales Centre, the Visitor Information Point offers an array of leaflets and information, plus staff offering basic advice and help on Stanhope and the Durham Dales. 

More complex requests for assistance with things like accommodation and transport, or enquiries for further afield, will be directed to the Visitor Contact Centre via a free direct telephone point.

On sale are ordnance survey maps, walking and cycling guides and accessories, a wide range of books covering the history and geography of the local area and a large selection of souvenirs, cards and gifts.

The grounds of the Centre boasts a wonderful site, also home to a wondeful sculpture, covered in lots of fossils, known as Frosterley Marble. The fossils form again more than 320 million years and beautifully decorate.   You will find it has been used further afield in architecture if you look at Columns In Durham Cathedral and Auckland Castle Chapel.