East Rainton
East Rainton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hetton, in the Sunderland district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England.
East Rainton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hetton, in the Sunderland district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is situated alongside the A690 road between Sunderland and Durham, near Houghton-le-Spring. In 1931 the parish had a population of 1711. East Rainton was formerly a township and chapelry in the parish of Houghton-le-Spring, from 1866 East Rainton was a civil parish in its own right, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished to form Hetton, part also went to Houghton le Spring.
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Worth seeing in and around East Rainton
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.
- 01Finchale Priory
Finchale Priory, sometimes referred to as Finchale Abbey, was a 13th-century Benedictine priory. The remains are sited by the River Wear, four miles from Durham, England.
3.8 km · Benedictine cell: hermitage, monastic precinct and site of priory watermill · Wikipedia - 02St Michael and All Angels Church, Houghton-le-Spring
St Michael and All Angels' Church is the parish church of Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, England. The church dates from the late 12th century and contains the tomb of Bernard Gilpin.
2.5 km · Grade I listed church in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to East Rainton
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 27 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 107 km · Manchester (MAN), 172 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → East Rainton114 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → East Rainton157 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · £19–25
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → East Rainton172 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £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 Rainton
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 Rainton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inDFDS operate an overnight ferry between Port of Tyne, North Shields (near Newcastle) and Ijmuiden near Amsterdam.
- Get inSee Newcastle page for how to reach the ferry terminal: in brief, take the train between Durham and Newcastle, then the shuttle bus (£3.80 each way, 30 min) or Metro to the ferry.
From Wikivoyage: Durham (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to East Rainton
East Rainton is 19 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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