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Conquer all that Durham has to offer, night or day, by wandering its medieval streets.
There’s only one way to arrive in this city and that’s by train. Should you arrive by car, drive straight to the train station and see what you’ve missed. The vast, soaring bulk of the Norman cathedral and the crenellated, much-buttressed sprawl of the castle dominate the skyline like giant thrones on a dais.
The pair sit at either end of a rocky, steep-sided peninsula squeezed by a loop of the River Wear. Built within twenty-odd years of each other, in the 11th century, they were, and still remain, the focus and raison d’être of the city. The beauty of this chummy arrangement is that nothing in Durham is very far from anything else. The city clusters around their skirts, spreading barely a mile in any direction. And, as Britain’s third oldest university town, a lively youthful spirit mixes with the sense of history. Georgian houses and bohemian shops, traditional tea-rooms and funky café-bars, classical concerts and comedy nights all happily mingle.
