Newcastle upon Tyne travel guide

Top 10 sights in Newcastle upon Tyne

Ranked by Wikipedia language editions — proven fame.

1. 

   1

   Turbinia

   The first ship driven by a steam turbine, built as an experiment in 1894 by Charles Parsons and the fastest vessel afloat in her day. She made her name by tearing uninvited through the Spithead Navy Review of 1897; the hull is now displayed at the Discovery Museum.

   TiqetsKlook
2. 

   2© R J McNaughton · CC BY-SA 2.0

   Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey

   A Benedictine double monastery of Northumbria, with St Peter's founded on the Wear in 674 and St Paul's on the Tyne in 682. Bede entered it as a boy of seven and wrote his history of the English church here; part of the Jarrow chancel is original seventh-century fabric.

   TiqetsKlook
3. 

   3© The original uploader was Soloist at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0

   Newcastle Cathedral

   The Anglican cathedral of Newcastle, a fourteenth-century parish church whose lantern spire of 1448 stands on flying buttresses and served as a navigation mark for ships on the Tyne. It became a cathedral in 1882 for the most northerly diocese in England.

   TiqetsKlook
4. 

   4

   Newcastle upon Tyne Castle

   The castle whose new keep of 1178 gave the city its name, replacing a Norman motte of 1080 on the site of the Roman fort. The keep and the Black Gate of 1247 survive, cut off from each other by the railway viaduct driven between them in 1849.

   TiqetsKlook
5. 

   5© Agnete · CC BY-SA 4.0

   Arbeia

   A Roman fort at South Shields guarding the mouth of the Tyne, first excavated in the 1870s and cleared of modern buildings in the 1970s. Its granaries stored supplies for Hadrian's Wall garrisons, and the west gate has been rebuilt full-size.

   TiqetsKlook
6. 

   6

   St Mary's Cathedral

   The Catholic cathedral of Hexham and Newcastle, designed by Augustus Welby Pugin and built between 1842 and 1844 on Clayton Street, with a spire added in 1872. It is one of Pugin's larger churches and holds his own furnishings in part.

   TiqetsKlook
7. 

   7© Mjobling · CC BY 3.0

   Beamish, The Living Museum of The North

   An open-air museum in County Durham that pioneered the living museum, with a 1900s town, a colliery village, a farm and a Georgian landscape staffed by costumed workers. Buildings were dismantled from across the northeast and rebuilt here from 1970.

   TiqetsKlook
8. 

   8© Christine Westerback · CC BY-SA 2.0

   Castrum Segedunum

   A Roman fort at Wallsend marking the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall, occupied from about 122 for roughly three centuries. Its outline is laid out in a modern housing estate, with a reconstructed bath house and a viewing tower over the site.

   TiqetsKlook
9. 

   9© Chris Tweedy · CC BY-SA 2.0

   Prudhoe Castle

   A medieval castle on the south bank of the Tyne at Prudhoe, held by the Umfravilles and then the Percys, and the only Northumbrian castle never taken by the Scots. Its Norman gatehouse chapel has an oriel window, the earliest in England.

   TiqetsKlook
10. 

    10© Peter McDermott · CC BY-SA 2.0

    Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

    A contemporary art centre in a 1950s flour mill on the Gateshead bank of the Tyne, converted by Ellis Williams and opened in 2002. It has no collection at all — everything is temporary — and admission is free.

    TiqetsKlook

Popular tickets & tours in Newcastle upon Tyne

Live products and prices are provided directly by Klook.

KlookOpen Newcastle upon Tyne activitiesBrowse tickets & toursKKdayOpen Newcastle upon Tyne activitiesBrowse tickets & tours

Trending now

Based on 2025 Wikipedia pageviews — popular places beyond the top 10.

1. 

   1© Bill Henderson · CC BY-SA 2.0

   Lumley Castle

   A fourteenth-century quadrangular castle at Chester-le-Street, built by Sir Ralph Lumley and remodelled by Vanbrugh in the 1720s. It is now a hotel and trades heavily on its ghost, a servant said to have been thrown down the well in 1372.

   TiqetsKlook
2. 

   2© The original uploader was Tagishsimon at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0

   Grey's Monument

   A Grade I listed column of 1838 in the centre of Newcastle, topped by a statue of Earl Grey, prime minister when the Reform Act passed in 1832. Lightning knocked the head off in 1941; the tea named after him is the other association.

   TiqetsKlook
3. 

   3© Original author was Adam G. Bell · CC BY 3.0

   Spanish City

   A seaside pleasure building at Whitley Bay opened in 1910 with a concert hall, restaurant and roof garden, modelled on Blackpool, with a ballroom and permanent funfair added in 1920. Its white domes were derelict for years and reopened in 2018 after restoration.

   TiqetsKlook
4. 

   4

   Pons Aelius

   A Roman auxiliary fort and small settlement on the north bank of the Tyne in what is now central Newcastle, occupied from the second to the fourth century. Its name means Aelian bridge, after Hadrian's family name and the bridge he built here.

   TiqetsKlook
5. 

   5© Craigy (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0

   Hylton Castle

   A stone gatehouse-tower in North Hylton, first raised in timber by the Hylton family after 1066 and rebuilt in stone around 1400. It stayed their seat until the last baron died in 1746, then passed through decay, a school and a colliery before the state took it on in 1950; heraldic shields still crowd the west front.

   TiqetsKlook
6. 

   6

   Lambton Castle

   A stately home above Chester-le-Street, ancestral seat of the Lambton family, earls of Durham, listed at Grade II*. The Lambton Worm legend, one of the best-known folk tales in England, belongs to this estate.

   TiqetsKlook
7. 

   7© Chris McKenna (user:Thryduulf) · CC BY-SA 4.0

   Tynemouth Castle and Priory

   A Benedictine priory and castle on a headland at the mouth of the Tyne, where three Anglo-Saxon kings were buried — the three crowns on the borough's arms. The priory was a fortified outpost against the Scots and the site remained a coastal battery into the twentieth century.

   TiqetsKlook
8. 

   8© Phil Thirkell · CC BY-SA 2.0

   Darras Hall

   A housing estate at Ponteland, twelve kilometres northwest of Newcastle, laid out from 1907 on garden city principles. It is the most expensive residential address in northeast England and is where most Newcastle United players live.

   TiqetsKlook
9. 

   9© EL36ML · CC BY-SA 3.0

   Grainger Town

   The historic commercial centre of Newcastle, about thirty-six hectares of streets laid out by the developer Richard Grainger in the 1830s and designed largely by John Dobson. Grey Street, its curved centrepiece, is regularly voted the finest street in England.

   TiqetsKlook
10. 

    10© Peter Scott · CC BY-SA 4.0

    Leazes Park

    The oldest park in Newcastle, opened in 1873 after a petition from three thousand working men for open space, and Grade II listed. It lies immediately west of the city centre behind St James' Park football ground.

    TiqetsKlook