... Durham

Durham is a compact city which offers a wide range of places to visit, including Durham Cathedral. A wide range of shops and restaurants co-exist happily with the Victorian Market, and with much of Durham’s shopping area is closed to traffic, this makes for a great and relaxing shopping experience.

Durham City offers a cobbled Market Place, a thriving city market and one of the top universities in the UK. Dozens of regional attractions are easily reached from Durham, including the largest open-air museum in England - Beamish Museum, where you can see life as it was at the beginning of the last century.

Whatever you want from your visit to the City of Durham and the North East, Southcliff holiday apartments will help turn your visit into a memorable one.

... Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle is known today as a vibrant friendly city, with a great personality and recently voted one of the party capitals of Europe. Situated in the north east of England, on the banks of the River Tyne and surrounded by the scenic beauty of Northumbria, Newcastle is an ideal place from which to tour the heritage coastline, with its unspoiled sandy beaches and other places of interest.

Visitors will find Newcastle brimming with attractions old and new, a few of the highlights are; Earl Grey's Monument, St. Nicholas Cathedral, the Castle Keep, the Angel of the North, and the Quayside.

Newcastle can boast three large shopping centres, including the Gateshead Metro Centre, plus many fascinating museums as well as cinemas, theatres, sport and leisure centres, art-centres and a rich variety of clubs. restaurants, bistros and coffee shops.

The Sage Gateshead is an international home for music and musical discovery, bringing about a widespread and long-term enrichment of the musical life of the North East of England.

... Northumberland

Welcome to the beautiful and historic County of Northumberland. Northumberland provides a stunning region of country walks and strolls along a picturesque coast. An historic area of castles and magnificent gardens with heritage around every corner.

The coastal strip of the Northumberland offers some of the most beautiful and unspoilt coastline in England. Of the many islands lying off the Northumbrian coast, the best known are Lindisfarne (Holy Island), and the Farne Islands, famous for its teeming sea-bird and seal colonies.

The region is well known for its award-winning beaches and spectacular coastline as well as its countryside, wildlife and tranquil beauty. Whatever you want from your visit to Northumberland, Southcliff holiday apartments will help turn your visit into a memorable one. We look forward to seeing you soon.