1820s Landscape

We will expand the stories that we already tell from the early 19th century as part of the project. The 1820s Landscape welcomed the quilter’s cottage in July 2018 – the first exhibit to open as part of Remaking Beamish. The recreated cottage offers a fascinating insight into the lives of poorer working people and cottage industries in the 1820s.

There are also plans to build a pottery, which will include a Georgian kiln, blacksmith’s and drover’s tavern and traveller’s rest eating area. Visitors will also be able to stay overnight in adjacent farm buildings and cottages converted into self-catered accommodation.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, we revisited the overnight accommodation offer planned for the museum, with the Georgian coaching inn developments being put on hold.

Rhiannon Hiles, Beamish CEO, said: “This is an environmentally-friendly solution, developing existing buildings, and for the time being the footprint of the inn will remain within the fields below Pockerley and we will return this area to pasture, until such time in the future when we are able to revisit the plans.”

Find out more about the revised overnight offer in the Pockerley Farm Cottages and Flint Mill Cottages section below.