Burdon
Burdon is a village and civil parish in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England.
Burdon is a village and civil parish in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. It is south of the city centre. The north-west of the parish includes part of the Doxford Park estate. It has a population of 971. There is currently no parish council.
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Worth seeing in and around Burdon
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ryhope Engines Museum
The Ryhope Engines Museum is a visitor attraction in the Ryhope suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. The Grade II* listed building is a popular landmark in Ryhope and is based at The Ryhope Pumping Station, operational for 100 years before closing in 1967.
1.9 km · museum in Sunderland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Doxford House
Doxford House is an 18th-century mansion in the Silksworth area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
2 km · house in City of Sunderland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Burdon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 28 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 111 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 174 km
- Stations
- Seaham railway station, 3.7 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Burdon118 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £14–18
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Burdon173 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £21–27
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Burdon162 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · £20–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Burdon
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Burdon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBus 50 runs hourly from South Shields (for Tyne ferry) to Boldon, Nissan factory, Washington, Chester-le-Street and Durham.
From Wikivoyage: Washington (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Burdon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Burdon
Burdon is 19 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Warden Lawvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK2.4 km
- Ryhopevillage along the southern boundary of the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, North East England2.3 km
- Old Burdonvillage in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom1.7 km
- Tunstallsuburb of Sunderland, UK2.2 km
- Herringtonarea of Sunderland, UK3.4 km
- Farringdonsuburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England2.7 km