Heathery Burn Cave

#6406 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Heathery Burn Cave is a cave near Stanhope, County Durham, England, in which a large collection of Late Bronze Age weapons and tools was discovered and excavated between 1859 and 1872. ()

Coordinates: 54°45'56"N, 2°1'15"W

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Heathery Burn Cave – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hisehope Reservoir, Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine, Slit Woods, Tunstall Reservoir.

3.9 miNE
Lake
Hisehope Reservoir, North Pennines
100 min walk • Hisehope Reservoir is the smallest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Smiddy Shaw Reservoirs. The reservoir was completed 1906, and is owned and operated by Northumbrian Water.
6.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine
159 min walk • Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Derwentside district of north County Durham and the Tynedale district of south Northumberland, England.
5.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Slit Woods
133 min walk • Slitt Woods is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of County Durham, England. It occupies the valley of Middlehope Burn, a tributary of the River Wear, which it joins at Westgate, just south of the site.
4.8 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Tunstall Reservoir
124 min walk • Tunstall Reservoir was a water supply storage reservoir completed in 1879, and now used solely to maintain minimum regulatory flows on the River Wear in northeast England.
4.6 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Fairy Holes Cave
118 min walk • Fairy Holes Cave is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of west County Durham, England. It is located on the western flanks of Snowhope Moor, on the right bank of Westernhope Burn, some 3 km south-west of the village of Eastgate.
4.7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Smiddy Shaw Reservoir
119 min walk • Smiddy Shaw Reservoir is one of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Waskerley and Hisehope Reservoirs. The reservoir, which was completed by 1872, is owned and operated by Northumbrian Water.
4.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Westernhope Burn Wood
105 min walk • Westernhope Burn Wood is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Wear Valley district of south-west County Durham, England.
5.4 miW
Church
Westgate Methodist Chapel
139 min walk • Westgate Methodist Chapel stands on the A689 road in the village of Westgate, some 5 miles west of Stanhope, County Durham, England.
1.3 miSE
Archaeological site
Crawley Edge Cairns, Stanhope
33 min walk • The Crawley Edge Cairns are a series of forty-two Bronze Age round barrows, cairns and clearance cairns located in a field in Crawleyside, near Stanhope, County Durham, England.
5.1 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Weardale
131 min walk • Weardale is a dale, or valley, on the east side of the Pennines in County Durham, England. Large parts of Weardale fall within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – the second-largest AONB in England and Wales.
2.9 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Waskerley Reservoir
75 min walk • Waskerley Reservoir is the largest of a group of three reservoirs located on Muggleswick Common, County Durham, the others being Smiddy Shaw and Hisehope Reservoirs.