Discover / Visit / Explore Teesdale

 - to help promote Teesdale as a quality destination for individual tourists and the travel trade.

The multi-lingual, award-winning and DDA compliant website now features streetscapes of Barnard Castle and Middleton-in-Teesdale.

This is in addition to a full accommodation database, the widely linked-to TML Events Calendar, which is expertly maintained by the Teesdale Village Halls Consortium, Google Maps for all accommodation and attractions, and the Bill Bryson podcast hosted by Radio Teesdale.

The website is supported by a new, quality bedroom browser, Explore Teesdale, which has now been distributed to all accommodation providers in the dale (further copies are available from the Barnard Castle and Middleton in Teesdale Tourist Information Centres).

www.teesdalediscovery.com / www.visitteesdale.com / www.exploreteesdale.com

Local Food and Produce

 - supporting and promoting the production and use of local produce and products.

The award winning FARMA certified Barnard Castle Farmers' Market trades on the first Saturday of each month in Market Place, Barnard Castle.

The market is now organised by a stallholder management group which is liaising closely with the Barney Guild to promote the dale's local produce and Barnard Castles unique retail offer to both residents and visitors.

Web sites: www.teesdalefarmersmarkets.co.uk and www.eatteesdale.co.uk

The result of TML's recently submitted application to build upon the work already done to support and promote local produce is currently awaited.

The Teesdale Brand

- to help everyone who has an interest in promoting leisure, tourism and trade in Teesdale to give a clear and consistent vision for the region. Click here for details.

Flower Tubs

 - helping to make Barnard Castle more colourful

For many years, TML has managed the sponsorship and twice-yearly planting of wooden flower tubs around the historic centre of Barnard Castle. The sixteen tubs, sponsored by private businesses and individuals, have helped to make Barnard Castle more colourful all year long.

In May 2009, TML gifted the tubs to Barnard Castle Town Council who are now responsible for organising sponsorship and maintaining the tubs and floral displays.

Barney Bridge

- a proposed "wobbly bridge" across the Tees.

This would be the longest, pedestrian, rope-suspension bridge in the world! If built, the bridge would enable a new, circular, riverside walk, based on Barnard Castle, to be created with the bridge itself providing the opportunity to enjoy fantastic views of the dale and Barnard Castle.

The bridge has the potential to attract significant additional visitors to Teesdale to the benefit of local restaurants, cafes and accommodation providers plus other attractions and businesses locally and in the wider region.

- still a proposed TML project for Teesdale but ...