Durham Riverside Reflections

A still summer morning on the Wear, the river a flawless mirror beneath full green woodland, with the cathedral's towers rising above the treeline in warm low light. The boathouses along the bank double themselves in the water.

Durham Cathedral was built in the late 11th and early 12th centuries to house the shrines of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede, and is the finest example of Norman architecture in England. With the castle beside it, the cathedral crowns a peninsula formed by a loop of the River Wear.