Event type:	Outing
Date:	21st May 2026
Booking:	Note that booking is required.

Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland. Cost £45 (without National Trust membership), £24 (with National Trust membership). Cragside House sits at the heart of an enormous, landscaped garden. With spectacular vision, Victorians William and Margaret Armstrong transformed the grounds from a bare moorside into a fantasy mountain landscape. An extraordinary Victorian house, gardens and woodland – a wonder of its age.

Discover the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. The gardens are incredible – one of the largest rock gardens in Europe leads down to the Iron Bridge which in turn leads to the Formal Garden. You’ll discover towering trees, overflowing flower beds, trickling burns, dramatic water cascades as well as engineered lakes that were created to harness the power of water. Explore the Rock Garden, Formal Garden and Pinetum, and experience a grounds covered in millions of trees and rhododendrons. 

Please note that in many places the terrain can be uneven with steep footpaths and steps and, at times, these can be muddy.  We therefore recommend you wear sturdy footwear and take care as they can be slippery at any time of the year.  

The coach will leave Fountain Street car park at 8:30am and thereafter St Paulinus, The Avenue. There will be a stop near Morpeth for coffee and we plan to arrive at Cragside at approximately 11:30am. We plan to leave Cragside at 4pm arriving back in Guisborough at 6:30pm. There is a reduced fee for National Trust members but you must show your card on the day.

For queries, please contact excursion coordinator Moira Stokoe – 07719 698954. Booking will commence at March meeting.