Bed Breakfast near Beamish Museum

Beamish museum is only 4 miles from Riding Farm and Riding Farm Cottages which offer 4 star silver bed and breakfast & 4 star self catering cottages. Beamish open air museum is ideal for a family day out with lots to explore including the 1825 Manor House, the 1913 town - experience the sweetie shop, pub and very scary dentist and dont forget to go down the mines remind the little ones how lucky they are! Beamish is a large museum which is well spread out for the children to run around but dont panic there are vintage trams buses and cars which transport you around the museum they are great fun.

There are a lot of special events throughout 2009 at Beamish including

Morgan Car Rally
Steam Glorious Steam - the Beamish Steam Engine Rally
Georgian Fair and Napoleonic Muster
Horse Plouging
Match and Country Crafts
Classic Car Day
Leek Show and Harvest Festival
New in 2006 was the Puffing Billy steam locomotive which will keep all the family amused.

Beamish Museum has a working 1900s farm with a range of farm animals, farm buildings and machinery for all to explore - ideal for a family holiday in the country. At Riding Farm we can remember using some of them our grandfather donated machinery to the musuem which is on show in the farmyard

Masonic Temple, was new in Easter 2006, has been moved and rebuilt stone by stone at Beamish - it was originally built in Sunderland in 1869.

There is a footpath to Beamish from Riding Farm which was probably used by the miners to get to and from the mines. New in 2009 in the mining village is the lamp exhibition well worth a look.