The Hotel maintains the 18 en-suite rooms and warm, friendly welcome which have made it extremely popular with visitors to the region.

However, it is as an eating place that visitors will see the greatest changes to the Hotel. The property has been carefully redesigned to accommodate over 100 diners and yet maintain a relaxed atmosphere.

The new design acknowledges the importance of the Bowes Incline in regional industrial history and uses it to produce an interesting, intimate and smoke-free setting in which you can enjoy dishes from a menu created to be both appealing and tempting.

Following comprehensive refurbishment The Old Mill is now a typical English Inn with a warm and welcoming atmosphere, tasteful and stylish furnishings set in an ideal situation only a mile from Junction 61 of the A1M , and 5 miles from the historic City of Durham.

17 en-suite rooms, all with Freeview, and WIFI awaits the visitor to the Tankerville.

We act as the ideal base to discover ‘The Secret kingdom’ that is Northumberland’. Within 30 minutes drive on our quiet Northumbrian road, you can easily reach the best that the coastline has to offer, as well as the Scottish border country. We are en-route of the St Cuthberts Way, which runs Melrose to Holy Island of Lindisfarne, and are overlooked by the magnificent Cheviot hills, we are a stones throw from the National Park, and have some of the best walking country in the land, we can organise a guide to take you around the ‘best bits’ and fill you in with the history surrounding the area, or you may prefer to explore alone.

Ashley, and his wife Elaine run the kitchen and Restaurant, with the very best of local produce. Glendale Lamb, North Sea ‘Line Caught’ mackerel & cod, Northumbrian Beef, Doddington Dairy Ice-Cream to name but a few, all prepared and served with care.

Surrounded by top class golf courses, you can base yourself at the Tankerville and play a different course each day, we can arrange for you to go gliding, clay pigeon shooting, fishing, or whatever you may fancy.