This handsome town is on the northern bank of the Tyne as it enters the north sea.
In Georgian and Victorian times it was a home for wealthy ship-owners, merchants and industrialists, so there’s a lot of lovely property from the 1700s and 1800s.
The maritime scenery is wonderfully moody in winter, while on warmer days visitors from Newcastle flock to King Edward’s Bay and Tynemouth Longsands for some seaside R&R. Tynemouth Pier is a breakwater at the mouth of the river, pushing out to the North Sea for more than 800 metres.
