Beamish Museum

Beamish, County Durham Beamish tells the story of North East England across four periods: an 1820s Georgian landscape and waggonway, a 1900s pit village and a town set in 1913, a 1940s wartime farm and a 1950s town. Some buildings were saved and moved here, including St Helen's Church, rebuilt stone by stone, and a Co-op store from Annfield Plain, and costumed staff in each area explain what daily life was like. It is too big for one visit, which is why the Unlimited Pass, letting you return as often as you like for a year after paying once, is the ticket to buy. Winter opening is reduced, with some weeks closed on Mondays and Tuesdays and January open on weekends only.