The Council owns and manages a number of
popular countryside recreation sites throughout the county.
These include:
- Bedlington Country Park along the banks of
the river Blyth at Bedlington
- Blyth Links and foreshore between Seaton
Sluice and Blyth
- Bolam Lake Country Park near Belsay
- Druridge Bay Country Park near Amble
- Plessey Woods Country Park near
Bedlington
- QEII Country Park on the northern edge of
Ashington
- Tyne Riverside Country Park near Prudhoe,
and
- Wansbeck Riverside Park along the banks of
the river Wansbeck downstream of Sheepwash.
The Council as also owns and manages a number
of smaller countryside sites, picnic areas, and Local Nature
Reserves as well as a number of woodlands on reclaimed pit land
around south east Northumberland.
The country parks vary greatly in their size
and character, and include open coast, valley woodlands, lakes,
grassland and plantation woodland. Each site provides for the
recreational needs of local communities as well as drawing visitors
from across the County and from farther a field.
The smaller countryside sites are also varied
in their form and purpose. Several sites mark and interpret the
locations of historic Northumberland battles and others offer
managed parking and access to coastal beauty spots or roadside
picnic sites and viewpoints.
The Council also owns and manages a major
section of the former railway line between Alston and Haltwhistle.
Now known as the South Tyne Trail, this provides a multi-use
recreational route (for walkers, riders and cyclists) through some
of the finest North Pennine scenery.
Follow the link below for further information about our
countryside recreation sites.
To down load a car park permit application
form for the Council's Country Parks please click on
this link.
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