Cleadon
Cleadon is a suburban village in South Tyneside in the North East of England.
Cleadon is a suburban village in South Tyneside in the North East of England. Prior to the creation of Tyne and Wear in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, the village was part of the historic County Durham. In the 2011 UK Census the population of the South Tyneside ward of Cleadon and East Boldon was 8,427. Nearby population centres include East Boldon, Whitburn, and Jarrow. The village is located approximately 5 miles (8 km) from the city of Sunderland and 5 miles from the town South Shields. It is situated on the south west of Cleadon Hills, an example of a Magnesian Limestone grassland home to a number of regionally and nationally rare species.
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Worth seeing in and around Cleadon
4 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.
- 01St Andrew's Church, Roker
St Andrew's, Roker, is a Church of England parish church in Sunderland, England. It is recognised as one of the finest churches of the first half of the twentieth century and the masterpiece of Edward Schroeder Prior.
3.6 km · church in Sunderland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Souter Lighthouse
Souter Lighthouse is a lighthouse located to the North of Whitburn, South Tyneside, England..
2.9 km · lighthouse · Wikipedia - 03Tyne Coast College
South Tyneside College is a large further education college in South Tyneside in North East England. Its main site is in the town of South Shields.
3.6 km · college in South Tyneside, UK · Wikipedia - 04Q93995130
Temple Memorial Park is a park in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, given to the public by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1946 and named after William Temple, the former archbishop of Canterbury.
1.9 km · park in South Shields · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cleadon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 21 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 122 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 166 km
- Stations
- Brockley Whins, 3.9 km · Chichester, 4 km · Simonside, 3.9 km · Tyne Dock, 3.5 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Cleadon129 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Cleadon165 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · £20–26
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cleadon172 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cleadon
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 Cleadon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor long-distance routes by air, rail, bus or ferry see Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Get inis served by the Shields Ferry across the Tyne from North Shields.
- Get inOn the far side, Shuttle Bus 333 links the pier to North Shields town centre and Metro station and is included in the ferry fare.
- Get inAlthough Port of Tyne is mostly on the south bank, the overnight DFDS ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam dock at the north bank terminal in North Shields.
- Get aroundBuilt in 1951, they're 884-ft (270-m) long, and entered by funicular lifts and by the original wooden Waygood-Otis escalators.
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Next door to Cleadon
Cleadon is 14 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- South Tynesidemetropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England, UK2.4 km
- Whitburnvillage in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England2.3 km
- East Boldonvillage in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England2.1 km
- Seaburnsuburb in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.3 km
- West Boldonvillage in South Tyneside, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Marsdenvillage in South Tyneside, UK3 km