Little independent writing about Durham is still going. These three are the honest count. A walker who maintains the Weardale Way and Teesdale Way online also writes up routes from the city. The World Heritage Site's own news reports open days in places that are usually closed. The county's wildlife trust writes about the reserves it manages, from the coast up to the Teesdale meadows.
They lead to a monastic ruin above the Browney, a twelfth-century college chapel on the peninsula and a hay meadow named after the farmer who kept it.