Things to do in Hexham
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Bouchon Bistrot
Hexham may be an unlikely setting for fine dining, but this Gallic affair has such an enviable reputation and was voted the UK's best local French restaurant in 2010 by Channel 4 viewers of Gordon Ramsey's The F Word. Country-style menus are reassuringly brief, ingredients as fresh as nature can provide and the wine list an elite selection of champagnes, reds and whites. The owners have also created a cosy, understated interior in which to enjoy all of the above.
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Hexham Abbey
Dominating tiny Market Pl, Hexham's stately abbey is a marvellous example of Early English architecture. It cleverly escaped the Dissolution of 1537 by rebranding as Hexham's parish church, a role it still has today. The highlight is the 7th-century Saxon crypt, the only surviving element of St Wilifrid's Church, built with inscribed stones from Corstopitum in 674.
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Old Gaol
This strapping stone structure was completed in 1333 as England's first purpose-built prison; today its four floors tell the history of the jail in all its gruesome glory. The history of the Border Reivers – a group of clans who fought, kidnapped, blackmailed and killed each other in an effort to exercise control over a lawless tract of land along the Anglo-Scottish border throughout the 16th century – is also retold, along with tales of the punishments handed out in the prison.
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Dipton Mill
This superb country pub is 2 miles out on the road to Blanchland, among woodland and by a river. It offers real ploughman's lunches and real ale by real fires – really.
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