Discover Teesdale App – Interactive Map & Local Guide
Discover Teesdale is a free interactive web app built to help people explore Teesdale in one place.
Use the map to find walks, waterfalls, local history, places to eat, places to stay and events across the dale, including Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and the surrounding villages.
It has been built locally as part of Outdoor Exploring Family, with the aim of making it easier to discover more of Teesdale without sign-ups, listing fees or complicated booking systems.
Explore Discover Teesdale
Choose what you’re looking for and jump straight into the app.
Find somewhere to eat or stay, see what’s on, or open the map and start exploring.
Eat & Drink
Find cafés, pubs and restaurants across Teesdale, including Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and nearby villages across the wider dale.
Find places to eat →
Places to Stay
Find hotels, B&Bs, holiday cottages and other places to stay across Teesdale, including Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and nearby villages across the dale.
Find places to stay →
What’s On
Find local events, markets, festivals, group walks and activities happening across Teesdale, including Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and nearby villages.
See what’s on →
Explore the map
Find walks, waterfalls, viewpoints, local history and places to explore across Teesdale, including Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and nearby villages.
Start exploring →
Are you a local business, community group or event organiser?
Discover Teesdale is free for local businesses, community groups and event organisers to use.
If you run a café, pub, restaurant, accommodation business, walking group, art club, book club, community group or local event in Teesdale, you can add it directly to the app for free. There are no listing fees, no commission and no account required.
Explore Teesdale, Barnard Castle and the surrounding villages
Discover Teesdale brings together useful local information for exploring Barnard Castle, Middleton-in-Teesdale and the wider Teesdale area.
Whether you are looking for places to eat in Barnard Castle or Middleton-in-Teesdale, somewhere to stay in Teesdale, local events or ideas for things to do, the interactive map is designed to help you find everything in one place.
You can also use Discover Teesdale to find walks, waterfalls, viewpoints, local history and other places to explore across the dale. New businesses, accommodation, events and community activities can be added directly by local people and organisations, helping the guide continue to grow.
What’s the catch? Why is Discover Teesdale free?
There isn’t one.
Discover Teesdale was deliberately built as a free, installable web app with no account, no sign-in and no subscription. You can open it, use it and explore Teesdale without handing over your details first.
We’re local to Teesdale and always have been. We love the area, its history and the stories tied to the landscape, and this is our way of putting something useful back into the community rather than trying to take from it.
Of course, the app does cost us something to run. There are website and mapping costs, data protection registration and licensing costs for some of the map services we use. We were also given permission by the National Library of Scotland to use its historic mapping through our map provider. The costs are manageable and we fund them ourselves.
The biggest cost is time. Coding the app, researching local history, visiting places, taking photographs and keeping everything updated takes a lot of hours, but that is the bit we choose to give.
Will listings always be free?
Yes.
When Outdoor Exploring Family and Discover Teesdale began, one of the promises I made when building them was that useful local information would never be hidden behind a paywall.
We also never wanted independent cafés, pubs, accommodation owners, community groups or event organisers to have to pay us simply to tell people they exist.
Listings on Discover Teesdale are free now and the intention is for them to stay that way.
The goal has always been simple: build something useful that helps people slow down, explore Teesdale, notice its history and understand a little more about the place — for free, now and in the future.