Towering trees at Cragside

A favourite place to visit for me in Northumberland is Cragside: the former home of Lord Armstrong and first 'first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity'. The house is set high on a very rocky, craggy hillside (so the name is apt) and surrounded by some beautiful gardens.

You can approach the house by a long walk through the forest and over the Iron Bridge, an elegantly industrial structure that arcs over the small river running through the wood.

This photo was taken from up on the bridge, looking back down at the tall, slender trees neatly spaced apart in the garden/forest below.