5 miles from Ouston Parish

The very extensive remains of a 13th-century priory, founded on the site of a retired pirate's hermitage. Part of it later served as a holiday retreat for the monks of Durham Cathedral.

6 miles from Ouston Parish

The distinctive and highly decorative gatehouse-tower of a castle built by the wealthy Sir William Hylton, shortly before 1400. Originally containing four floors of self-contained family.

7 miles from Ouston Parish

The remains of a small temple to the native god 'Antenociticus', in the 'vicus' (civilian settlement) which stood outside Benwell fort.

7 miles from Ouston Parish

A stone-built causeway, where the road from the south crossed the Vallum earthwork on its way to Benwell fort.

8 miles from Ouston Parish

The foundations of a turret and a 65-metre (213 foot) length of Wall, along with another 60-metre length of Wall further west.

8 miles from Ouston Parish

The home of the Venerable Bede, chronicler of the beginnings of English Christianity, Jarrow has become one of the best-understood Anglo-Saxon monastic sites.