Is Yarm worth a trip?

goalscrounger said:
**** all in Yarm unless you want to sit and drink with a load of "look at me" people and coke heads. You could stay in Newcastle and go to Jesmond for that.

Not sure if you've flown into Newcastle before but it's a long haul from the airport to the city centre. Not sure how much a car would cost to rent but might not be much more than public transport?
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It's barely 30 minutes by metro to central Newcastle, and only £2 at the moment, I think.
 
Lovely little place , nice pubs and restaurants, river walk , but an hour and your done , unless you stay in a pub or restaurant. Nice walk from the Blue Bell beer garden along the river and back up through eaglescliffe village takes an hour . Then a meal and a pint or two in one of the many nice places .
 
Have already been to Durham on a similar trip.

Thinking of going to York but the trains they are quite expensive from Newcastle.

Like the thought of Saltburn. Any other suggestions?

Thanks all so far.
 
Darren said:
Have already been to Durham on a similar trip.

Thinking of going to York but the trains they are quite expensive from Newcastle.

Like the thought of Saltburn. Any other suggestions?

Thanks all so far.
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York is class , go there end of conversation
 
If Darren wants to get to know the local spectacular scenary and wants some exercise walk up Roseberry Topping (rail station Great Ayton) and Saltburn walk up and down the Cliff from the rail station to Seaview Restaurant (sit upstairs near the windows) and admire the pier and Huntcliff and they are tops for Fish and Chips. If staying in Saltburn go for a pint in the Ship Inn, its an old smuggling Inn (used to have a smuggling museum attached to it. At Redcar there is brand new cinema (Regal) with cafe/restaurant built over the beach with great sea views too. On Match day visit the Transporter Bridge. The Dorman Museum gives a history of the Town and next door in Albert Park there is a statue of Brian Clough. The Smoggie Scholar pub has quite a bit of Boro memorobilia.
 
JHS1 said:
It seems to be the 'cool' thing to slag off Yarm at the minute, everyone is doing it.
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To be fair I think all people were getting at was once your away from the high street there's nothing there.
The comments about the night time scene from personal experience are accurate. Granted other nights may be superb family affairs.

@Redwurzel good shout with the train station at Ayton for the Roseberry Topping walk. It's a much better walk starting from there instead of the car park at Newton under Roseberry. You could either to Roseberry Topping OR Captain Cooks Monument from that starting position at the train station.
 
OP not actually states what he wants to do with his time? Drinks, eating, sight seeing, shopping, walking???
I imagine he will have an overnight bag and no transport so long walking/trekking may not be a sensible option?
With more information from the OP then a better informed answer can be given.
 
Won't have a bag as it'll be left off at the hotel upon arrival.

Enjoy the usual, drinking, eating, sightseeing, walking. Anything but shopping
 
I'd go to tyncastle very similar to Yarm. Nice sea views also. Cracking fish n chips and decent bars aplenty. Then back to your hotel ready for the match the next day.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Or even stopping off at Durham on your way to the match, which is another nice city to explore too and you'll be passing through on the train, rather than going out of your way to York?

If you want the Irish connection then you can visit the Keith O'Neill heritage trail in Yarm, and see where he lived, where he drank and where he bought his white suits (many establishments are sadly gone, but you still get a real feel for the place as it was in those halcyon summer days when he truly was king of Yarm.)
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The 'real' keith o'neill heritage trail is in fact in Judges hotel. the trail is the crazy paving style pattern of human excrement from the main entrance all the way to the room he was occupying at the time after a 'mad' saturday night partying down yarm high St. . true story
 
He seemed to be interested in travelling by train so I linked everything to rail stations. I assume he was in reasonable health/fitness as he is making a trip over from Northern Ireland.

Buses are probably better to get around more places on Teesside as the number of rail stations is limited, but I don't know many routes and numbers.

Kirkleatham is real little gem, but its a bus trip, and to see it at its very best it needs a guided tour to get into locked up places. (Its about 3 miles out of Redcar centre). However even without a guide its worth a trip.

There is a museum there with exhibitions on Steel Industry and its workers, Saxon Princess, local guy who won a VC in WW1, local art ofen on display, cafe, Bird of Prey centre, recreation of a Georgian Walled Garden, Georgian Hospital Almhouses with magnificant stained glass window in the chapel (needs special permission to go in) Georgian Mausoleum (need permission to go in). If going check out first opening day and times for stuff. Its a quiet time of the year and things might be closed.
 
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