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A view of Cullercoats in Tyne & Wear.

Cullercoats

(2.6 miles, 4.2 km, direction NW)

Cullercoats has many pleasing aspects including a picturesque 19th century church in a commanding position close to the shoreline...

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St.Bedes Monastery in Jarrow, Tyne And Wear

Jarrow

(3.0 miles, 4.8 km, direction SW)

This is the town that is famous for the 1930's "Hunger March" caused by the intense poverty that followed the closing of the Charles Palmer shipyard. The last of the surviving marchers, Cornelius Whalen died in 2003 at the age of 93...

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Seafront

Sunderland

(6.3 miles, 10.2 km, direction S)

Sunderland was granted a charter in 1145, the charter gave it market rights and thus the town grew slowly from humble beginnings...

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Sun Rise at Seaton Sluice, Tyne & Wear.

Seaton Sluice

(6.5 miles, 10.5 km, direction NW)

For centuries salt had been panned in the region, at this time the village was known as Hartley Pans, but this appears to have changed following the building of a harbour with a sluice at the harbour mouth...

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Victoria viaduct

Washington

(8.0 miles, 12.9 km, direction SW)

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The Angel of the north

Gateshead

(8.1 miles, 13.0 km, direction SW)

The urban sprawl of Gateshead rises majestically skywards in a seemingly endless mixture of concrete and glass. Gateshead stretches for almost 13 miles along the banks of the River Tyne...

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The Church in Elswick Cemetery

Newcastle upon Tyne

(8.2 miles, 13.3 km, direction W)

This important City was known as Pons Aelii in Roman times; the Romans built the first bridge over the River Tyne, it was guarded by a Roman fort which was replaced by a castle.....

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Penshaw Monument, Penshaw, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear

Penshaw

(8.8 miles, 14.2 km, direction S)

Penshaw lies in open countryside between the urban sprawl of Sunderland and Washington...

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Photograph of Blyth Harbour, Northumberland

Blyth

(9.8 miles, 15.8 km, direction NW)

An attractive old place, with a long seafaring history, the port of Blyth is believed to date back to the 12th-century...

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Steam Train 2

Beamish

(12.5 miles, 20.2 km, direction SW)

Beamish is famous for its lovely open-air museum which so vividly brings to life how the folk of the region lived at the turn of the 20th century...

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Tynemouth Lighthouse

(0.8 miles, 1.3 km)

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Arbeia Roman Fort at the Lawe Top in South Shields

Arbeia Roman Fort

(0.9 miles, 1.5 km)

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Tyne South Pier Lighthouse

(1.0 miles, 1.6 km)

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Tyne North Pier Lighthouse

(1.2 miles, 2.0 km, direction N)

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Tynemouth Castle, England

Tynemouth Castle

(1.3 miles, 2.0 km, direction NW)

The haunting, intermingaled ruins of Tynemouth Castle and Priory stand on a headland above the River Tyne. Between them they.....

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Tynemouth Priory, Tynemouth

Tynemouth Priory

(1.6 miles, 2.5 km, direction N)

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Marsden Beach

Marsden Bay

(2.0 miles, 3.2 km, direction SE)

Sadly, the great triumphal arch, that had for so long dominated this beautiful bay, crumbled and collapsed in 1996. The arch was.....

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Spanish City, Whitley Bay

(4.0 miles, 6.5 km, direction N)

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Rising Sun Country Park, Wallsend.

Rising Sun Country Park

(4.9 miles, 7.8 km, direction W)

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Hylton Castle, Sunderland, tyne & WEAR

Hylton Castle

(5.2 miles, 8.4 km, direction S)

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