An easy 3-mile drive south of Durham on the A167, these motel-style rooms with countrified chequered fabrics and parking outside the door make a convenient spill-over option when Durham is full. Family rooms sleep up to four people. The main building has a timber bar and restaurant serving good pub grub in generous portions.
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Monumental Durham Cathedral is the definitive structure of the Anglo-Norman Romanesque style, a resplendent monument to the country’s ecclesiastical…
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