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  1. Add Guided Walk - People, Place and Nature to your Itinerary

    Guided Walk - People, Place and Nature

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    Type:

    Guided Walk

    Forest in Teesdale

    A guided circular walk in celebration of the Pennine Way’s 60th anniversary starting from The Langdon Beck Hotel.

    Dates

    From:
    28 Aug 2025Open 09:30 - 14:30
    More info for Guided Walk - People, Place and Nature

  2. Add Night with the Spirits at Lumley Castle Hotel to your Itinerary

    Night with the Spirits at Lumley Castle Hotel

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    Participatory Event

    Chester le Street

    Join our resident Paranormal team, GhostWatchers UK, and take part in paranormal experiments in and around a Castle! 

    Dates

    From:
    5 Sept 2025Open 20:30 - 02:00
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    20 Sept 2025Open 20:30 - 02:00
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    31 Oct 2025Open 20:30 - 02:00
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    22 Nov 2025Open 20:30 - 02:00
    More info for Night with the Spirits at Lumley Castle Hotel

  3. Add Funny Way To Be Comedy: Cally Beaton to your Itinerary

    Funny Way To Be Comedy: Cally Beaton

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    Type:

    Comedy

    Barnard Castle

    A funny show about a deadly serious subject, a celebration of and for the female of the species. Invisible no more.

    Dates

    From:
    29 Oct 2025Open 20:00 - 22:00
    More info for Funny Way To Be Comedy: Cally Beaton

  4. Add Durham Fringe Festival - Cobin Millage: A Losing Battle With Grass That Just Won’t Stop Growing to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival - Cobin Millage: A Losing Battle With Grass That Just Won’t Stop Growing

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    Comedy

    Durham

    After his debut show was listed as one of the British Comedy Guide's recommended shows, and he was subsequently nominated for Best Newcomer at the Comedian's Choice Awards, he comes back to address his bizarre name, being forgotten in time, and the…

    Dates

    From:
    26 July 2025Open 20:45 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival - Cobin Millage: A Losing Battle With Grass That Just Won’t Stop Growing

  5. Add Much Ado About Nothing - Handlebards - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle to your Itinerary

    Much Ado About Nothing - Handlebards - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle

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    Type:

    Theatre

    Staindrop

    Settle in for an unforgettable evening of open-air theatre as the brilliant HandleBards return to Raby Castle with their delightfully chaotic, bicycle-powered production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

    Dates

    From:
    14 Aug 2025Open 18:30 -
    More info for Much Ado About Nothing - Handlebards - Open Air Theatre at Raby Castle

  6. Add Christmas Fused Glass Workshop & Festive Refreshments - Lanchester Garden Centre to your Itinerary

    Christmas Fused Glass Workshop & Festive Refreshments - Lanchester Garden Centre

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    Workshop

    Bargate Bank, Lanchester

    Have you ever fancied trying a fused glass workshop? Join us and Julie's Hand Crafted Glass for our Christmas Fused Glass Workshop.

    Dates

    From:
    8 Nov 2025Open 14:00 - 16:00
    More info for Christmas Fused Glass Workshop & Festive Refreshments - Lanchester Garden Centre

  7. Add Railway 200 Talk: “Timothy Hackworth – The Man who Engineered a Future for the Locomotive” – with Mike Norman to your Itinerary

    Railway 200 Talk: “Timothy Hackworth – The Man who Engineered a Future for the Locomotive” – with Mike Norman

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    Talks

    Shildon

    As we’re into the Stockton & Darlington Railway Bicentenary year, we’re teaming up with the Friends of the Stockton & Darlington Railway and Jane Hackworth-Young to present a series of talks at Timothy Hackworth’s own Institute.

    Dates

    From:
    20 Aug 2025Open 19:00 -
    More info for Railway 200 Talk: “Timothy Hackworth – The Man who Engineered a Future for the Locomotive” – with Mike Norman

  8. Add Murder Mystery Dinner - Murder-Ton at Lumley Castle Hotel to your Itinerary

    Murder Mystery Dinner - Murder-Ton at Lumley Castle Hotel

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    Type:

    Murder Mystery

    Chester le Street

    As the season's  most glittering event turns deadly, can you uncover the killer before the final dance?

    Dates

    From:
    29 Aug 2025Open 19:00 -
    More info for Murder Mystery Dinner - Murder-Ton at Lumley Castle Hotel

  9. Add GNB - 61 Durham Weekly Market to your Itinerary

    GNB - 61 Durham Weekly Market

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    Markets

    High Pittington

    61 Weekly Market, every Wednesday.

    Dates

    From:
    7 May 2025to29 Oct 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for GNB - 61 Durham Weekly Market

  10. Add Summer of Magic at The Hole in Wand - Dalton Park Outlet & Outdoors to your Itinerary

    Summer of Magic at The Hole in Wand - Dalton Park Outlet & Outdoors

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    Children/Family events

    Murton

    Join us for a spellbinding adventure this July and August as The Hole in Wand brings a touch of enchantment to Dalton Park with their Summer of Magic. Across selected dates, enjoy magical live magician performances and face painting for little…

    Dates

    From:
    22 July 2025to26 Aug 2025Various Opening Times
    From:
    16 Aug 2025to30 Aug 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Summer of Magic at The Hole in Wand - Dalton Park Outlet & Outdoors

  11. Add Nathan Coley You Create What You Will and Tate Modern on Fire - The Bowes Museum to your Itinerary

    Nathan Coley You Create What You Will and Tate Modern on Fire - The Bowes Museum

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    Exhibition

    Barnard Castle

    For the first time together, The Bowes Museum hosts Nathan Coley’s works, You Create What You Will (2014) and Tate Modern on Fire (2017). Known for his thought-provoking public works, Coley explores how belief systems shape our cities, institutions…

    Dates

    From:
    14 June 2025to1 Mar 2026
    More info for Nathan Coley You Create What You Will and Tate Modern on Fire - The Bowes Museum

  12. Add S&DR200: Coal, Canals and Carriages: The Story of Raby and the Railways to your Itinerary

    S&DR200: Coal, Canals and Carriages: The Story of Raby and the Railways

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    Festival

    Staindrop

    Raby Castle will celebrate the year with stories associated with 19th-century inventions, including the reactions of landowners and farmers to trains, as well as how travel evolved into a privilege for the upper classes from their collections.

    Dates

    From:
    28 June 2025to31 Oct 2025Open 11:00 - 16:00
    From:
    3 July 2025to29 Oct 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for S&DR200: Coal, Canals and Carriages: The Story of Raby and the Railways

  13. Add Durham Fringe Festival - Adele Cliff: Adele, Adele, Adele… Cliff It Isn’t The Consequences Of My Own Actions to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival - Adele Cliff: Adele, Adele, Adele… Cliff It Isn’t The Consequences Of My Own Actions

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    Type:

    Comedy

    Owengate, Durham City

    Fresh from performing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Durham Fringe regular and 2023 Leicester Comedy Award Nominee Adele Cliff returns to examine lying, honesty and consequences. The many time Joke of the Fringe nominee, double…

    Dates

    From:
    25 July 2025to27 July 2025Open 21:15 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival - Adele Cliff: Adele, Adele, Adele… Cliff It Isn’t The Consequences Of My Own Actions

  14. Add Magna Carta and its Influence Today: A Durham Cathedral Institute Debate - Durham Cathedral to your Itinerary

    Magna Carta and its Influence Today: A Durham Cathedral Institute Debate - Durham Cathedral

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    Talks

    Durham

    Magna Carta is one of the most important documents in Britain’s legal history. First issued in 1215, it established the principle that everyone, including the King, is subject to the law and it guaranteed new individual rights.

    Dates

    From:
    15 Oct 2025Open 14:00 -
    More info for Magna Carta and its Influence Today: A Durham Cathedral Institute Debate - Durham Cathedral

  15. Add Angela Barnes ANGST - The Witham to your Itinerary

    Angela Barnes ANGST - The Witham

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    Comedy

    Barnard Castle

    A brand-new stand-up show from Angela Barnes, star of Mock The Week and Live at The Apollo. Angela is a worrier. Whatever it is, she'll worry about it. But don't let that worry you – she'll worry enough for the both of you.

    Dates

    From:
    12 Sept 2025Open 19:30 - 21:30
    More info for Angela Barnes ANGST - The Witham

  16. Add Faith in the North: Lord’s Prayer Tour - Durham Cathedral to your Itinerary

    Faith in the North: Lord’s Prayer Tour - Durham Cathedral

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    Religious Event

    The College, Durham

    Hear the Lord's Prayer and teachings, as part of the Faith in the North tour as The Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell visits all twelve dioceses in the Northern Province of the Church of England.

    Dates

    From:
    3 Oct 2025Various Opening Times
    More info for Faith in the North: Lord’s Prayer Tour - Durham Cathedral

  17. Add Durham Fringe Festival: Secret Admirers to your Itinerary

    Durham Fringe Festival: Secret Admirers

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    Type:

    Theatre

    Durham City

    Welcome to the Bureau's Secret One-To-One Surveillance Branch, where every person on earth is keenly surveyed by an FBI Agent! In this musical comedy, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ meets espionage and bureaucracy, as two FBI agents help their awkward…

    Dates

    From:
    25 July 2025to27 July 2025Open 20:30 -
    More info for Durham Fringe Festival: Secret Admirers

  18. Add Live Music Evening with Soul Committed - High Farm Holiday Park to your Itinerary

    Live Music Evening with Soul Committed - High Farm Holiday Park

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    Type:

    Music Event

    Bishop Auckland

    Join us for an evening filled with bags of fun enjoying covers of Northern Soul, Motown and more.

    Dates

    From:
    26 July 2025Open 18:30 - 22:30
    More info for Live Music Evening with Soul Committed - High Farm Holiday Park

  19. Add SUP or Kayak Experience - Adventure Access to your Itinerary

    SUP or Kayak Experience - Adventure Access

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    Type:

    Wellness Event

    Seaham Harbour Marina, Seaham

    Want to give Kayaking or Stand Up Paddleboarding a try? This is the perfect way to test the waters and see if it’s for you!

    Dates

    From:
    26 July 2025to29 July 2025Various Opening Times
    From:
    4 Aug 2025to5 Aug 2025Open 12:00 -
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    10 Aug 2025to12 Aug 2025Various Opening Times
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    16 Aug 2025to17 Aug 2025Various Opening Times
    From:
    23 Aug 2025Open 09:30 -
    From:
    30 Aug 2025Open 09:30 -
    More info for SUP or Kayak Experience - Adventure Access

  20. Add Cliffecon - Halloween Edition at Oak Leaf Sports Complex to your Itinerary

    Cliffecon - Halloween Edition at Oak Leaf Sports Complex

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    Type:

    Halloween

    Newton Aycliffe

    Cliffecon Halloween Edition will be taking place on Saturday 25th October 2025 at Oakleaf Sports Complex.
    You can expect all the delicious geekiness of Cliffecon but with a spooky twist!

    Dates

    From:
    25 Oct 2025Open 10:30 - 16:00
    More info for Cliffecon - Halloween Edition at Oak Leaf Sports Complex