Kids Days Out In County Durham

County Durham is unusually well served for a county its size, largely because the railways started here and the museums never let anyone forget it. Locomotion at Shildon is free, it is enormous, and it will absorb most of a day.

We list 42 attractions across the county. Adventure Valley near Durham covers the under-tens, the North East Land, Sea and Air Museum handles the older ones, and the Consett to Sunderland railway path is the free option when the weather holds.

Durham city itself is walkable and the cathedral costs nothing to enter. For the coast and the Dales you will want the car.