East Boldon
The Boldons is an area made up of the three villages of East Boldon, West Boldon and Boldon Colliery in South Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.
The Boldons is an area made up of the three villages of East Boldon, West Boldon and Boldon Colliery in South Tyneside, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. In 2001, they had a population of 13,271.
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Worth seeing in and around East Boldon
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.
- 01Hylton Castle
Hylton Castle is a stone castle in the North Hylton area of Sunderland, England. Originally built from wood by the Hilton family shortly after the Norman Conquest in 1066, it was later rebuilt in stone in the late 14th to early 15th century.
2.5 km · castle in Sunderland, UK · Wikipedia - 02Northern Spire Bridge
The Northern Spire Bridge is a bridge over the River Wear in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. The crossing opened to pedestrians on 28 August 2018, before opening to traffic the next day.
3.3 km · bridge in Sunderland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03North East Land, Sea and Air Museums
The North East Land, Sea and Air Museums, formerly the North East Aircraft Museum, is a volunteer-run aviation museum situated on the site of the former RAF Usworth/Sunderland Airport, between Washington and Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. The museum has the largest aviation collection between Yorkshire and Scotland and houses over 30 aircraft and a wide collection of aero engines.
3 km · aviation museum in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · 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.
2.8 km · park in South Shields · Wikipedia
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Getting to East Boldon
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 19 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 121 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 165 km
- Stations
- Seaburn, 3.9 km · Brockley Whins, 2.1 km · Pallion, 3.9 km · Bede, 3.6 km · Simonside, 3.1 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → East Boldon128 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £15–19
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → East Boldon165 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · £20–26
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → East Boldon171 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · £21–27
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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 East Boldon
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 East Boldon. 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 East Boldon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to East Boldon
East Boldon is 11 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, UK1.6 km
- Cleadonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK2.8 km
- Boldon Collieryarea and ward in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England1.7 km
- West Boldonvillage in South Tyneside, United Kingdom600 m