📌 Woodhorn, Northumberland
★★★★
In a region blessed with some excellent museums, Woodhorn is one of the very best. This part open-air, part indoor attraction occupies the site and buildings of the former Woodhorn Colliery, where up to 600,000 tons of coal was extracted annually until the pit closed in 1981. Some of the colliery buildings have been made safe and accessible to the public, while the strikingly modern Cutter Building houses a superb exhibition about “Coal Town” from 1900 to the present day. Adjacent to the museum, what was once the world’s largest pit village has now been transformed into a sizeable country park with a lake at its centre and a narrow gauge railway.
🌍 Location
📌 Off the A189, Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, 0.5 mi west of Woodhorn village
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NZ 289885
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.189786,-1.547488
🚌 Bus to Woodhorn Road / Woodhorn Villas junction, Ashington (0.5 mi via footpath)
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Wednesday to Sunday; daily during Northumberland school holidays
🎫 £9.50 adult / free for children
