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The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of
the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many
of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and
Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale
in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast,
including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern
Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.
