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Clarendon's Tearoom & Café
Clarendon's occupies a 16th-century, Grade II listed building on Market Place…
CultureNo. Three Fine Art
No. Three Fine Art is a contemporary gallery at 3 Cockton Hill Road in Bishop…
CounterWindlestone Nursery & Garden Centre
Windlestone Nursery is an independent garden centre on Windlestone Lane in…
CellarCrafty Monkey Brewing
Crafty Monkey Brewing was set up in 2017 by Pat Garrett and Gary Olvanhill, two…
RestSea View Guest House
Sea View Guest House occupies a seafront position on The Green in Seaton Carew,…
LarderBlackwells Butchers
Blackwells Butchers has traded from 122 High Street in Norton village,…
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Aubergine Cafe
Sedgefield, ENG
Independent café on Sedgefield's High Street serving cooked breakfasts until 11.15am, lunches,…
Bexters Tea Room
Stokesley, ENG
Independent tea room on Stokesley's High Street, trading since 2013 with staff who have worked…
Echo 3 Coffee House and Roastery
Darlington, ENG
Echo 3 Coffee House and Roastery opened in Clark's Yard in 2018, started by a young couple who…
Flower Fairy Florist
Darlington, ENG
A family-run florist on North Road in Darlington making hand-tied bouquets and arrangements from…
Kaffeehaus Coffee Roasters
Sacriston, ENG
Kaffeehaus is run by Bernhard and Carina Nausner, a father-and-daughter team who grew up with the…
The Oakwood Coffee Shop
Eaglescliffe, ENG
A café at The Oakwood Centre on Cleasby Way, run by Tees Valley Community Church and open Monday to…
The Treehouse Tearoom
Stockton-on-Tees, ENG
Upstairs from Lu Lu's Gift Company on Silver Street, the Treehouse Tea Room was created in 2022 as…
Vennels Cafe
Durham, ENG
Reached down a narrow alleyway, or vennel, off Saddler Street, this cafe occupies a 16th-century…
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Akarsu Turkish Restaurant & Grill
Durham, ENG
Family-run Turkish restaurant and grill at the foot of Silver Street, opened in 2016, looking out…
Clarendon's Tearoom & Café
Barnard Castle, ENG
Clarendon's occupies a 16th-century, Grade II listed building on Market Place in Barnard Castle,…
Fifteas Vintage Tea Room
Bishop Auckland, ENG
Vintage-styled tea room on Bishop Auckland's Market Place serving traditional afternoon teas,…
Minfika Tea & Coffee House
Normanby, ENG
Minfika Tea and Coffee House has served Normanby since September 2014 from a compact spot on…
Origins Coffee Bar
Darlington, ENG
Origins Coffee Bar occupies a corner of Origins, a homeware and gift shop on Grange Road in…
R&R Bistro
Skelton, ENG
R&R Bistro occupies a first-floor dining room and ground-floor restaurant on Skelton's High Street,…
Scoundrels Coffee Co.
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, ENG
Scoundrels Coffee Co. is a specialty coffee shop on Station Street, close to Saltburn's cliff lift…
Steam & Bean Coffee House
Middlesbrough, ENG
A small family-run coffee house in Rede House on Corporation Road in Middlesbrough, serving brunch…
Uno Ristorante
Yarm, ENG
Uno Ristorante has traded on Yarm High Street as a family concern run by Vince, Ricci, Ross and…
Larder
Biancos Deli
Hartlepool Marina, ENG
A family-run Italian-inspired deli at Hartlepool Marina offering dine-in seating, a licensed bar,…
Blackwells Butchers
Norton, ENG
Blackwells Butchers has traded from 122 High Street in Norton village, Stockton-on-Tees, for more…
Broom House Farm Shop
Witton Gilbert, ENG
Farm shop and butchery at Broom House Farm near Witton Gilbert, overlooking the Browney valley…
Broom Mill Farm Shop & The Mill Kitchen
West Auckland, ENG
A working farm shop and butchery in West Auckland, near Bishop Auckland, selling rare-breed pork…
Chapters Deli
Stokesley, ENG
Family-owned café and deli on Stokesley High Street, housed in a 16th-century building once used as…
Cross Lanes Organic Farm Shop
Barnard Castle, ENG
Cross Lanes was opened in October 2011 by Peter and Sue Coverdale, who bought a derelict pig and…
Gregory's Bakers & Deli
Bishop Auckland, ENG
Independent bakery and delicatessen on Newgate Street, making its own pies, pastries and…
Hutchinson Hobbs Farm Shop & Butchers
Yarm, ENG
Hutchinson Hobbs occupies a former golf shop at Holdenfields Farm outside Yarm, converted and…
Piercebridge Organics Farm Shop & Café
Piercebridge, ENG
Piercebridge Organics runs a farm shop and butchery from a 300-acre certified organic farm in the…
The Cheese & Wine Shop, Darlington
Darlington, ENG
The Cheese & Wine Shop trades from Skinnergate in Darlington town centre, having moved from its…
William Peat Butchers
Barnard Castle, ENG
William Peat Butchers occupies a shop on Horsemarket in Barnard Castle that traces its trading name…
Wynyard Hall Farmshop & Café
Wynyard, ENG
Wynyard Hall's walled gardens were laid out in 1822 and left to decline for much of the twentieth…
Culture
ARC Stockton
Stockton town centre, ENG
ARC is Stockton's independent arts centre, built in 1997 and run since 2002 by its own charitable…
Bondgate Gallery
Bishop Auckland, ENG
Bondgate Gallery in Bishop Auckland is the exclusive outlet for original paintings and limited…
Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum
Middlesbrough, ENG
A free museum at 101 High Street, Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, telling the story of Cook's early…
Hawkins Gallery
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, ENG
Hawkins Gallery on Milton Street is the shopfront and studio of the painter Andy Hawkins, who…
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Middlesbrough, ENG
MIMA holds the Middlesbrough Collection, which runs from Lowry's painting of the Old Town Hall and…
No. Three Fine Art
Bishop Auckland, ENG
No. Three Fine Art is a contemporary gallery at 3 Cockton Hill Road in Bishop Auckland, showing…
Platform A Gallery
Middlesbrough, ENG
Contemporary art gallery housed in the former parcel store and fish quay building at Middlesbrough…
Roxy Movies
Middlesbrough, unparished area, ENG
Roxy Movies opened at Captain Cook Square in Middlesbrough in July 2025, an independent cinema with…
Sandra Parker Studio
Barnard Castle, ENG
A working studio and gallery at 34 Horsemarket in Barnard Castle, showing original oil paintings…
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle, ENG
The Bowes Museum is a purpose-built gallery on the edge of Barnard Castle, designed by Jules…
The Georgian Theatre, Stockton-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees, ENG
The Georgian Theatre stands in Green Dragon Yard in Stockton-on-Tees, a Grade II listed building…
The Majestic Theatre
Darlington, ENG
The Majestic stands on Bondgate in the centre of Darlington, on the upper floors of an Art Deco…
Workshop
ANH Artisan Furniture Makers and Woodwork School
Frosterley, ENG
ANH Artisan is a furniture maker and hand-tool woodworking school based at Harehope Quarry, a…
Ashcroft Jewellery Design
Durham, ENG
Ashcroft Jewellery Design is the workshop of Andrew Ashcroft, a goldsmith and engraver who set up…
Durham City Studios
Claypath, Durham, ENG
Durham City Studios is a family-run framing and print workshop on Claypath, a short walk from…
Elizabeth Chamberlain Jewellery
Barnard Castle, ENG
Elizabeth Chamberlain runs her jewellery studio at 1 The Bank in Barnard Castle, where she designs…
Laura Hancock Ceramics
Westerton, ENG
Laura Hancock learned to throw pots as a child in her father Alan Ball's workshop in Washington,…
Malcolm Hepper Framing
Darlington, ENG
Bespoke picture framer working from a workshop on Whessoe Road, offering acid-free conservation…
Sharp & Sons Jewellers
Darlington, ENG
Sharp & Sons Jewellers has traded from 24 Queen Street in Darlington since 1983 and remains family…
Suzanne Jewellery
Barnard Castle, ENG
A lampworking studio on Woodlands Road in Barnard Castle run by glass artist Suzanne Tweddle, who…
The Carpenters House
Coxhoe, ENG
Husband-and-wife carpentry workshop based at the rear of Church Street in Coxhoe, making bespoke…
The Pottery Loft
Billingham, ENG
The Pottery Loft occupies a first-floor unit on High Grange Avenue in Billingham, where owners Liz…
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Apple Orchard Garden Nursery
Skelton-in-Cleveland, ENG
Apple Orchard Nursery sits in woodland on the edge of Skelton-in-Cleveland, close to Saltburn. New…
Book Corner Saltburn
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, ENG
An independent bookshop on Milton Street in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, trading since 2014 and moved to…
Cloud Cuckoo
Yarm, ENG
Independent gift shop on Yarm High Street, opened in 2009 by owner Kim as a place to browse gifts…
Collected
Durham city, ENG
Collected occupies two floors of the Riverwalk in Durham city centre, a bookshop built around…
DRAKE The Bookshop
Stockton-on-Tees, ENG
DRAKE The Bookshop opened on Stockton High Street on 22 September 2015, after Richard Drake left a…
HEAD Bookshop
Darlington, ENG
HEAD is a family-owned bookshop on Post House Wynd, a narrow pedestrian lane off Darlington's High…
Ingnet Antiques
Barnard Castle, ENG
Ingnet Antiques was founded in 1999 by Paul and Sue Ing and has traded from 40 Horse Market in…
Mark Lloyd Jewellery
Hartlepool, ENG
Goldsmith workshop and showroom on Park Road in Hartlepool, run by a master goldsmith trading on…
Needful Things
Headland, Hartlepool, ENG
Needful Things occupies two floors just off Church Square in old Hartlepool, close to the art…
Regency Records
Stockton-on-Tees, ENG
Independent record shop inside Stockton-on-Tees' Regency West Mall selling new and secondhand…
Saxosoul Records
Darlington, ENG
Saxosoul Records is a family-run record shop that first opened in 2017 in Kearton's Yard, just off…
Strickland & Holt
Yarm, ENG
Strickland & Holt has traded from the same building on Yarm High Street since 1854, when wine…
Cellar
Crafty Monkey Brewing
Hartlepool, ENG
Crafty Monkey Brewing was set up in 2017 by Pat Garrett and Gary Olvanhill, two friends who had…
Durham Brewery
Bowburn, ENG
Durham Brewery was set up in Bowburn in August 1994 by Christine and Steve Gibbs, both full-time…
Market Hall Wines
Durham, ENG
Independent wine, spirits and ale merchant trading from a stall inside Durham's historic indoor…
Sonnet 43 Brew House
Coxhoe, ENG
Cask ale brewery based at Clarence Villa in Coxhoe, launched in 2012 and named after Elizabeth…
Three Brothers Brewing Company
Bowesfield, Stockton-on-Tees, ENG
Three Brothers Brewing Company runs an 1800-litre microbrewery and taproom from a converted car…
WL Distillery
South Hetton, ENG
WL Distillery operates from a unit on the South Hetton Industrial Estate outside Durham, set up by…
Yarm Distillery
Eaglescliffe, ENG
Yarm Distillery was set up in 2018 by the Marsden family and is run by Sam Marsden and master…
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Crafty Merlin's Bottle Shop & Micropub
Darlington, ENG
Micropub and bottle shop on Bondgate in Darlington town centre selling traditional and craft cask…
ORB Micropub
Darlington, ENG
ORB Micropub occupies a former beauty salon on Coniscliffe Road and was Darlington's first…
That Crafty Brew Micropub & Bottle Shop
Chester-le-Street, ENG
That Crafty Brew is a micropub and bottle shop on North Burns in Chester-le-Street, run by owner…
The Dun Cow Inn
Sedgefield, ENG
The Dun Cow Inn is an 18th-century pub on Front Street in Sedgefield, run by the same licensee for…
The Golden Smog
Stockton-on-Tees, ENG
A one-room micropub tucked into Hambletonian Yard, just off Stockton High Street, opened in 2014 by…
The Grey Bull
Stanhope, ENG
One of only two pubs left in Stanhope, the Grey Bull is a free house on West Terrace known locally…
The Manor Pub, Henknowle
Henknowle, ENG
The Manor Pub occupies a former villa built around 1800 on the edge of Henknowle, now a Grade II…
The Other Side Darlington
Darlington town centre, ENG
The Other Side is a small micropub and off-licence on Houndgate in central Darlington, pouring…
Ye Old Elm Tree
Durham, ENG
One of Durham's oldest inns, occupying a building on Crossgate that dates from around 1600, on the…
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Castle View Guest House
Durham, ENG
Castle View is a small guest house in a 17th-century listed building on Crossgate, one of the older…
Homelands Guest House
Barnard Castle, ENG
Homelands Guest House occupies a Victorian townhouse at 85 Galgate in Barnard Castle, run by…
Sea View Guest House
Seaton Carew, ENG
Sea View Guest House occupies a seafront position on The Green in Seaton Carew, around 200 metres…
The Georgian Townhouse
Durham City, ENG
The Georgian Townhouse is a Grade II listed bed and breakfast on Crossgate in Durham, run by the…
The Morritt Hotel
Barnard Castle, ENG
Family-run country house hotel in the hamlet of Greta Bridge on the A66, built around a…
The Rose and Crown
Romaldkirk, ENG
The Rose and Crown has stood beside Romaldkirk's Saxon church since 1733, when it opened as a…
Victoria Inn Durham
Durham City, ENG
A Grade II listed Victorian public house on Hallgarth Street in Durham, built in 1899 and run by…
Yarm Guest House
Yarm, ENG
Yarm Guest House is the only bed and breakfast on Yarm's cobbled High Street, among the town's…
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