Whenever research is carried out to find out the UK's best drives, the North East always features highly. Just recently a 98-mile trip through Northumberland was named one of the most beautiful in the whole of the country.
The route took researchers from Berwick-upon-Tweed to the Kielderhead Nature Reserve via the Northumberland Coast, taking in such well known beauty spots as Lindisfarne and Holy Island, Bamburgh Castle, Druridge Bay Nature Reserve, Alnwick Castle and Hindhope Linn.
For our report we have kept the drives a bit shorter, and covering the whole of the North East, from Northumberland down to County Durham and North Yorkshire
