Park
Type
Whitley Bay
Where
Park
Good for
Check before you go
Cost
Plan your visit
Opening times
Open access — check locally for facilities
Location
Whitley Bay
Parent hack
Wellies and a change of clothes — the best bits are usually the muddiest.
Brierdene or Brier Dene is a small valley through which the Brierdene Burn flows down to its mouth at Whitley Bay. The valley was partly occupied by a coal mine in the past of which very little is now visible. Part of the valley is now the Brierdene Community Green Space and the Brierdene Wildlife Site. The site is now home to more than 1000 identified organisms and includes an ecologically diverse meadow and is a designated Site of Nature Conservation Importance. Much of work of transforming the valley into a wildlife refuge was undertaken by a voluntary group - the Friends of Brierdene…
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