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Family Fun

Whatever you're into NewcastleGateshead offers a superb range of activities to banish boredom for good.Highlights include Life Science Centre where the wonders of modern science are revealed, or Great North Museum: Hancock where you can explore 350 million years of evolution, complete with a life-size dinosaur skeleton!

Budding writers will love Seven Stories where words and pictures come to life with interactive exhibitions, storytelling sessions and all sorts of crafty activities, while sports can take a behind-the-scenes tour of Newcastle United's St James' Park or Sunderland AFC's Stadium of Light, or get hands-on with a climbing lesson at Climb Newcastle - just remember not to look down!

Lovers of the great outdoors should head to Washington Wetland Centre to encounter all sorts of wildlife from mini-beasts to their resident hunting sparrowhawk, or get your hands dirty Down at the Farm.

If the weather's good, why not take a trip to the beach. In 2010 all of North Tyneside’s Beaches – at Whitley Bay, Tynemouth Longsands, King Edward’s Bay and Cullercoats Bay - were awarded prestigious Blue Flag status alongside Sunderland’s Roker and Seaburn beaches and South Shields’ Sandhaven, whilst Tynemouth’s Blue Reef Aquarium, with sea-creatures from all around the world and a colony of miniature monkeys, is the perfect way to escape the sun.

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  1. Add Dunston Leisure Centre to your Itinerary

    Dunston Leisure Centre

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    Leisure / Swimming Pool

    Dunston

    Dunston Leisure Centre is part of GO Gateshead, one of the region’s leading gym, swim and exercise class providers.

    The centre offers fantastic facilities, including:

    - Main pool

    - Small pool

    - Gym

    - Two fitness studios

    ...

  2. Add Heworth Leisure Centre to your Itinerary

    Heworth Leisure Centre

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    Type:

    Leisure / Swimming Pool

    Gateshead

    Heworth Leisure Centre is part of GO Gateshead, one of the region’s leading gym, swim and exercise class providers. Heworth is home to FlowRider®, where you can experience the thrill of catching and riding a wave on our indoor surfing and body...

  3. Add Blaydon Leisure Centre to your Itinerary

    Blaydon Leisure Centre

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    Type:

    Leisure / Swimming Pool

    Blaydon-on-Tyne

    Blaydon Leisure Centre is part of GO Gateshead, one of the region’s leading gym, swim and exercise class providers.

    The centre offers fantastic facilities, including:

    - Main pool

    - Small pool

     - Fitness studio

     - Wi-Fi

    ...

  4. Add Wet ‘n’ Wild to your Itinerary

    Wet ‘n’ Wild

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    Type:

    Leisure / Swimming Pool

    Tyne and Wear

    Wet ‘n’ Wild is the North East’s largest indoor water park, offering an experience like nothing else in the region. Wet ‘n’ Wild offers 18 attractions including 10 exciting thrill rides, a lazy river, a wave pool, a mini water park and more!

  5. Add Watergate Forest Park to your Itinerary

    Watergate Forest Park

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    Country / Royal Park

    Gateshead

    Reclaimed colliery site with large lake and multi user path. Newly planted woodland and additional streamside mature woodland.

  6. Add The Branch to your Itinerary

    The Branch

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    Arts Centre

    Gateshead

    The Branch is home to a selection of creative businesses offering handmade arts, crafts and food products. Studios are based in Gibside’s historic stables and surrounding woodland while the onsite Bakery and Butchery are based in Market Place, near...

  7. Add Stargate Ponds and Bewes Hills to your Itinerary

    Stargate Ponds and Bewes Hills

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    Nature Reserve

    Ryton

    Besides the A694 at Stargate roundabout, Stargate Ponds and Bewes Hills is an area of grassland and wildlife rich ponds, reclaimed from former quarrying and opencast activities. It is an important area for many species of plants, birds and insects...

  8. Add Milkwellburn Wood Nature Reserve to your Itinerary

    Milkwellburn Wood Nature Reserve

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    Type:

    Nature Reserve

    Chopwell

    Milkwellburn Wood, near Blackhall Mill features an excellent network of surfaced tracks within the woodland providing access for wheelchairs and pushchairs. Currently undergoing a restoration project that aims to gradually remove the conifers in...

  9. Add Down at the Farm to your Itinerary

    Down at the Farm

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    Farm

    Houghton-le-Spring

    Please check the front of our website for availability and times www.downatthefarm.co.uk

  10. Add Blaydon Burn Farm to your Itinerary

    Blaydon Burn Farm

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    Nature Trail

    Blaydon-on-Tyne

    Small farm with field reared traditional breed cattle and sheep, fed on our own rich variety of naturally fertilised clover lay. High quality frozen meat for sale.

    We also have 26 acres of woodland which boasts many beautiful natural camping spots...

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