Fence Houses
Fence Houses, or Fencehouses is a village in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England.
Fence Houses, or Fencehouses is a village in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Fence Houses
5 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.
- 01Riverside Ground
The Riverside Ground, known for sponsorship reasons as the Banks Homes Riverside, is a cricket venue in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England. It is home to Durham County Cricket Club, and has also hosted several international matches.
4 km · Cricket ground in England · Wikipedia - 02Finchale 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 - 03Chartershaugh Bridge
Chartershaugh Bridge is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield as part of the A182 road. The bridge was opened in 1975 and is named after the former settlement of Chartershaugh, which once stood on a site near the bridge.
3.9 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04St 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 km · Grade I listed church in Houghton-le-Spring, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Matthew
St Matthew's Church is a Church in Newbottle, Tyne and Wear in the City of Sunderland Metropolitan Borough. It is a Grade II listed building.
2.4 km · church building in Newbottle, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Fence Houses
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 25 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 109 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 171 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Fence Houses117 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–18
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Fence Houses169 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · £21–27
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Fence Houses159 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Fence Houses
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 Fence Houses. 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 Fence Houses – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Fence Houses
Fence Houses is 16 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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