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Sunderland is a city at the center of the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, England, 10 miles southeast of Newcastle upon Tyne and 12 miles northeast of Durham at the mouth of the River Wear.
Historically in County Durham, there were three original settlements by the mouth of the River Wear on the site of modern-day Sunderland. On the north side of the river, Monkwearmouth was settled in 674 when King Ecgfrith of Northumbria granted land to Benedict Biscop to found Monkwearmouth Monastery. In 685, Ecgfrith further granted Biscop the land adjacent to the monastery on the south side of the river.
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Places to see in ( Houghton le Spring - UK )
Places to see in ( Houghton le Spring - UK )
Houghton-le-Spring is a town in North East England, which has its recorded origins in Norman times. It lies in the local government district of the City of Sunderland, in the county of Tyne and Wear, but previously in County Durham prior to 1974. It is situated almost equidistant between the cathedral city of Durham 7 miles (11 kilometres) southwest and Sunderland about 6 mi (10 km) northeast. The town of Seaham and the North Sea lie about 5 mi (8 km) directly east. The villages and towns of Newbottle, Fencehouses and Hetton-le-Hole lie nearby. It has a population of 36,746.
Other villages within the Houghton-le-Spring postal district include: Philadelphia, Shiney Row, Chilton Moor and Woodstone Village. The A690 road from Durham to Sunderland meets the A182 in Houghton at an unusual interchange. Heading northeast, slip roads leave the A690, heading up to a roundabout, while the A690 climbs and travels above a second roundabout, before the entry slip joins the A690 itself.
The parish church of St Michael and All Angels dates back to Norman times and contains the tomb of Bernard Gilpin, known as 'the Apostle of the North'. Gilpin was Archdeacon of Durham and in 1557 became the rector at Houghton-le-Spring, which at that time was one of the largest parishes in England. During World War II, Houghton was relatively unscathed from the bombing raids on nearby Sunderland as it was not worth bombing.
Houghton was an active coal-mining town. The local mine began to sink its first shaft in 1823 and was active until its closure in 1981. At its peak in the early 20th century, the pit employed over 2,000 workers.
Houghton Feast is an ancient festival held every October in the town. It has its origins in the 12th century as the dedication festival to the parish church of St Michael & Order of Nine Angles. Nowadays the festival lasts ten days and typically features a fairground, carnival, fireworks and an ox-roasting event in commemoration of Rector Bernard Gilpin's feeding of the poor. It was expanded in the 16th century by Gilpin and again in the late 18th century when it became connected with horse racing. The 19th century saw the introduction of steam-powered rides and all the fun of the fair, however events were downscaled as a result of World War II. Rector Noel Gwilliam was responsible for initiating the feast format as we know it today and encouraging an emphasis on the religious aspects. 2005 marked the 50th anniversary since former ward councillor John Mawston became involved with Houghton Feast.
Houghton-le-Spring's main shopping area is Newbottle Street, with some businesses branching off onto nearby streets for example Mautland Square, Sunderland Street, Durham Road and The Broadway amongst others. The White Lion pub is the last of four 'Lion' houses, with other three being drastically redeveloped as new businesses or demolished across the last century. Other public houses include the Houghton Comrades, the Copt Hill, the Mill, the Burn, the Britannia and the Wild Boar which is part of the Wetherspoons chain.
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A Walk in Houghton Le Spring Sunderland Tyne & Wear UK
A Walk in Houghton-le-Spring a town in North East England, which has its recorded origins in Norman times. Historically in County Durham, it is now administered as part of the local government district of the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear. It is situated almost equidistant between the cathedral city of Durham 7 miles southwest and Sunderland about 7 mi (11 km) northeast. The town of Seaham and the North Sea lie about 5 mi (8 km) directly east. The villages and towns of Newbottle, Fencehouses, and Hetton-le-Hole lie nearby. It has a population of 36,746.
Other villages within the Houghton-le-Spring postal district include Philadelphia, Shiney Row, Chilton Moor, and Woodstone Village.
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TOP 10 Things to do in Sunderland, England 2023!
TOP 10 Things to do in Sunderland, England 2023!
Sunderland, England an amazing place to visit in England. If you want to know top 10 what to do in Sunderland or you need a travel guide, please keep watching.
Number 5. North East Land, Sea and Air Museums
At the former RAF Unsworth on the way to Washington, this transport museum is mostly about the history of flight.
Special attention is paid to the early years of jet aviation, and there’s a serious collection of British-made planes like an Avro Vulcan, a Gloster Meteor, a Hawker Hunter, a De Havilland Comet and a De Havilland Vampire, as well as American and French models like a Lockheed T-33A, an F-86D Sabre and a Dassault Mystère IV. You’ll have lots of engines to check out, and a host of military land vehicles like armoured personnel carriers, tanks and trucks.
Number 4. St Peter’s Church, Monkwearmouth
The history of this fascinating church by the Wear and University of Sunderland campus goes back to 675 when it was founded by Benedict Biscop as a priory, making it one of the oldest stone churches in the country.
What is very rare is just how much of that first building remains, and you can see it in the porch, west wall and fragments of stone carvings.
The green space surrounding the church has recently been landscaped to illustrate the size of the complex in Benedict Biscop’s day.
The Venerable Bede, often cited as “The Father of English History”, lived and studied here from the late 7th century.
Number 3. Penshaw Monument
Above the Herrington Country Park in Houghton le Spring there’s a striking folly atop Penshaw Hill, looking like a Greek temple has been transplanted to Wearside.
Built from local gritstone, the Penshaw Monument dates from 1844 and commemorates John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, the Whig statesman who had an important role in the British colonisation of New Zealand.
At 30 metres long and 20 metres high, this National Trust property has the scale and detail of a Classical temple, with Doric columns, an architrave, a frieze, a cornice and a pediment.
One of the pillars conceals a spiral stairway to access a scenic viewing platform, open from Easter to the end of September.
Number 2. Mowbray Park
Among the North East of England’s oldest urban parks, Mowbray Park is right in the city centre, behind the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.
The park opened in 1857 but had been in the pipeline for more than 20 years after the city realised it needed more green space following a cholera epidemic in 1831. As you wander over the little hillocks around Mowbray Park you may be interested to know that these bumps were caused by forgotten limestone quarries.
The park was the showpiece for the city centre’s regeneration in the 1990s and has fine monuments like the cast-iron William Hall Drinking Fountain from 1878 and a bandstand giving concerts that people watch on deckchairs.
Number 1. Ryhope Engines Museum
Founded in 1868, the Ryhope Pumping Station, in the suburb of the same name, functioned for a century before finally shutting down in 1967. The site is still owned by Northumbrian Water and still houses its pair of awesome Hawthorn beam engines, which have just celebrated their 150th anniversary.
The station no longer pumps water but those engines are in working order, and you can come and see them on Sundays, along with a set of smaller engines, three boilers from 1908, a waterwheel and a blacksmith’s forge.
There are also special “Steaming Weekends” five times a year when you’ll get to watch the engines and their 18-ton flywheels in motion.
Rainton Meadows Nature Reserve. Chilton Moor, Houghton le Spring DH4 6PU. (4K)
Rainton Meadows was created by the restoration of the Rye Hill Opencast coal mine in 1996 by UK Coal in partnership with Durham Wildlife Trust and the City of Sunderland.
Home to Durham Wildlife Trust’s headquarters. The visitor center is open seven days a week from 10am – 4.30pm as is the nature-themed WildPlay area. The center has a range of facilities including toilets, a classroom, meeting rooms and a coffee shop.
There is an excellent network of accessible pathways linking viewing areas that look across the lakes and wetlands, with areas of grassland and woodland completing the habitats on site.
Although a relatively new site Rainton Meadows has developed into a significant area for wildlife over the last 20 years. The wetlands and grasslands support a wide range of birds and over 200 species have been recorded. Waders such as redshank, oystercatcher, lapwing are regularly seen and also more unusual species such as little ringed plover. All five species of UK owl can be seen at different times of the year and there are good numbers of warblers, finches, tits and farmland birds.
Stoat, weasel, brown hare and roe deer are regularly seen and the wetlands attract numerous dragonflies and damselflies. Butterfly numbers are also high, particularly grassland species.
Exmoor ponies and sheep are used to naturally manage the grasslands during the winter months (all grazing is within fenced compartments) adding to the interest on site.
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On top of Penshaw Hill sits the Earl of Durham's Monument.
Better known as the Penshaw Monument, this 70 foot high monument is a replica of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens and can be seen for miles around. It is considered to be Wearside's most beloved landmark, even appearing on the badge of Sunderland Football Club.
The Riani Family of Houghton-le-Spring
Originally known as the Gaiety Temperance Bar, Riani's Cafe and ice cream shop was located at 67 Newbottle Street, Houghton-le-Spring, and was owned by Colombo and Alessandro Riani, two brothers from Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Tuscany.
The shop was open until 1991 and is well remembered by Houghtonians. This short video looks at some of the Riani family members, as well as the shop's frontage in c1912, c1920 and 2011.
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North East England Views, Landmarks and Attractions
North East England Views, Landmarks and Attractions
A tour around the North east of England visiting some of the attractions, landmarks and views of the area, including York, Sunderland, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, Alnwick, Seaham and Middlesbrough, tourist attractions include, Durham Cathedral, Gatehead Quayside, Tyne bridges, Tyne and Wear Metro, Finchale Abbey, Old King Coal, Transporter Bridge, Sunderland International Airshow, Roker and Seaburn Beaches. Jesmond Dene, Tynemouth castle and priory, Seaham Solider and Alnwick castle and Gardens.
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Houghton Cut: A690 through Houghton-le-Spring - then and now
Short video showing HOUGHTON CUT in the 1900s and 2012. Shots show how the road has been widened over the years and is now the busy route of the A690 from Sunderland to Durham.
Haunted Hillside cemetery Houghton-Le-Spring 🇬🇧
Ever Driven through Houghton Cut on the A690 & wondered what that thing that looked a bit like a Church was? Now's your chance to find out.
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A graveyard in a limestone quarry (As the area's existing graveyards were full from Cholera)
7000 bodies between 1854 - 1971 were buried here. including
Reverend John Grey (founder, who fought for it with the aid of future Prime Minister Lord Palmerston) Thomas Robinson (of Hardwick Hall who opposed it, but ended here).
William Standish Standish, a local landowner from Cocken Hall near Finchale. Legend has it that he rode his horse over the cliff to his death and was buried where he landed in 1856.
He is indeed buried at the foot of the cliff in a large tomb. But there is no evidence to support the horse story, or the accompanying tale of William’s ghost haunting the cemetery.
The biggest and most ostentatious tomb is that of Sir George Elliot, a pit worker made good who eventually became a colliery owner, wire rope manufacturer, Conservative MP, baronet and influential friend of Benjamin Disraeli.
He died in 1893, but only after altering the course of history by persuading Disraeli to buy shares for Britain in the Suez Canal.
Not everyone could afford a headstone and 10% of burials at the cemetery were of residents of the local workhouses.
Others buried there include:-
Joseph Bland Pearon, an auctioneer who was decapitated in a train accident near South Hylton Station in 1897.
William Shanks - famed mathematician of his day who calculated pi to 207 places
George Wheatley - Crimean war veteran and three murder victims including a two year-old girl.
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Here we are having a look at Penshaw Monument, the National Trust owned landmark based in Houghton-le-Spring in the city of Sunderland.
We wanted to create a review video for this landmark as we feel that it is something that needs more exposure to people outside of the North East of England as it is an attraction that isn't as famous as the other North East attractions, such as the Angel of the North, but we feel that it is just as significant.
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Houghton and Houghton Mill, Beautiful English Village Walks
Join me as I walk through the wonderful Cambridgeshire Village Houghton, and the Houghton mill.
Houghton /ˈhoʊtən/ is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Houghton and Wyton, in Cambridgeshire, England, approximately 3 miles (5 km) east of Huntingdon on the A1123 road, and south of RAF Wyton. It lies on the north bank of the River Great Ouse, by Houghton Mill.
It is within Huntingdonshire, a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and a historic county of England. It was named one of the Best Places to Live in the East by the Sunday Times in 2016.
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Hylton Castle, Sunderland, England, (4K)
HISTORY OF HYLTON CASTLE
Hylton Castle was built by Sir William Hylton as his principal residence in about 1400. The rich Hylton family had estates in Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland and by the 13th century had assumed the title of a barony within the Bishopric of Durham.
Today, the castle is owned by English Heritage, a charity which manages the historical environment of England. The surrounding parkland is maintained by a community organisation. The castle and its chapel are protected as a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. In February, 2016, plans were announced to turn the castle into a community facility and visitor attraction, with the Heritage Lottery Fund awarding £2.9 million, and Sunderland Council £1.5 million, to provide classrooms, a cafe and rooms for exhibitions, meetings and events.
Sunderland City, UK, England
The City of Sunderland is a metropolitan borough with city status in Tyne and Wear, North East England. It is named after its largest settlement, Sunderland, but covers a far larger area which includes the towns of Hetton-le-Hole, Houghton-le-Spring, and Washington, as well as a range of suburban villages.
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The Riani Family, Ice Cream sellers of Houghton-le-Spring (Puccini soundtrack)
Originally known as the Gaiety Temperance Bar, Riani's Cafe and ice cream shop was located at 67 Newbottle Street, Houghton-le-Spring, and was owned by Colombo and Alessandro Riani, two brothers from Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Tuscany.
The shop was open until 1991 and is well remembered by Houghtonians. This short video looks at some of the Riani family members, as well as the shop's frontage, and features annotations for the photographs plus a Puccini soundtrack (Colombo Riani was a friend of Giacomo Puccini).
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With thanks to all the members of the Riani family who shared photographs.
Places to see in ( Seaham - UK )
Places to see in ( Seaham - UK )
Seaham, formerly Seaham Harbour, is a small town in County Durham, situated 6 miles south of Sunderland and 13 miles east of Durham. It has a small parish church, St Mary the Virgin, with a late 7th century Anglo Saxon nave resembling the church at Escomb in many respects. St Mary the Virgin is one of the 20 oldest surviving churches in the UK. Seaham is currently twinned with the German town of Gerlingen.
The original village of Seaham has all but vanished; it lay between St Mary's Church and Seaham Hall (i.e. somewhat to the north of the current town centre). Until the early years of the 19th century, Seaham was a small rural agricultural farming community whose only claim to fame was that the local landowner's daughter, Anne Isabella Milbanke, was married at Seaham Hall to Lord Byron, on 2 January 1815. Byron began writing his Hebrew Melodies at Seaham and they were published in April 1815. It would seem that Byron was bored in wintry Seaham, though the sea enthralled him.
Seaham has fine beaches and transport links to the eastern coast. From 2001 most of the Durham coastline was designated as a heritage coast and Seaham beach was entirely restored. In 2002 the Turning the Tide project won, jointly with the Eden Project, the prize for Outstanding Achievement in Regeneration in the annual Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors awards. Seaham Hall is now a luxury hotel and spa.
In homage to the town's link to Lord Byron, the new multimillion-pound shopping complex, which now includes an Asda supermarket as well as Argos and Wilko stores, is named Byron Place. It aims to revitalise the area, using the successful redevelopment of the central shopping district of neighbouring town Peterlee as a benchmark. Asda officially opened on 3 September 2007 and the rest of the shopping centre opened in November 2007.
Today, the town is served by Seaham railway station, which lies on the Durham Coast Line, running from Middlesbrough to Newcastle upon Tyne, via Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees and Sunderland. Local bus services operated by Arriva and Go North East also provide access to the nearby towns of Murton, Peterlee and Houghton-le-Spring, as well as further afield to Sunderland, Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, Darlington, Stockton-on-Tees and Middlesbrough. Seaham has one secondary school, without a sixth-form, called Seaham School of Technology.
To the south, beside the road to Dalton-le-Dale, are the remains of Dalden Tower, comprising the ruins of a 16th-century tower and fragments of later buildings. The harbour itself may be said to be the principal landmark of the nineteenth-century town; though the Londonderry Institute in Tempest Road (1853 by Thomas Oliver) with its monumental Greek-style portico provides something of a glimpse of the Marquess's original vision for the town. Of a slightly later date, the former Londonderry Offices on the sea front once served as headquarters for the mining and other businesses of the Londonderry family. A statue of the 6th Marquess stands in the forecourt. Also dating from an early stage in the town's development is the town-centre church of St John, Seaham Harbour (1835–40). For the very much older St Mary's, Seaham, and its neighbour Seaham Hall, see above.
For just over a hundred years the harbour was towered over by a 58 ft (18 m) lighthouse on Red Acre Point immediately to the north. Erected in 1835, it displayed a revolving white light above a fixed red light. It was decommissioned in 1905, when the harbour was expanded and the current black-and-white striped pier-head light was constructed. Red Acre lighthouse was left standing, however, to serve as a daymark, until 1940 when the whole structure was swiftly demolished in case it should serve to assist enemy navigators.
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Herrington Country Park, (4K)
Herrington Country Park is a country park and open public space in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. Located adjacent to Penshaw Monument, the park was built on the site of a former colliery. The park has developed into a significant home for wildlife, hosting up to 100 species of birds. The park also includes a play area, sculptures, an amphitheatre, and a model boat sailing site at the lake.
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Houghton Hall Norfolk
In 1991 the present Lord Cholmondeley set about creating a fantastic new garden within the walls of the old kitchen garden as a memorial to his grandmother, Lady Sybil Cholmondeley. He has recently added a number of contemporary works of art throughout the park and gardens for visitors to discover as they walk through the grounds. Only open three days a week May – October. We went in early July and found the walled garden well worth a visit. Suitable for Children and Family viewing