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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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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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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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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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Washington

(8.0 miles, 12.9 km, direction SW)

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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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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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