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Harraton

Harraton is a suburb of Washington, in the Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, England.

Harraton
Harraton · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Harraton is a suburb of Washington, in the Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, England. Harraton is near the River Wear and is 3 miles north-east of Chester-le-Street, 2 miles south-west of Washington town centre and 9 miles south-southwest of Sunderland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Harraton

8 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.

  1. 01
    Riverside 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.

    3.9 km · Cricket ground in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Concangis

    Concangis was an auxiliary castra in the Roman province of Lower Britain. Its ruins are located in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, in England, and are now known as Chester-le-Street Roman Fort.

    3.7 km · Roman fort in Durham, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Washington Old Hall

    Washington Old Hall is a historic manor house in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England. It lies in the centre of Washington, being surrounded by other villages.

    2.7 km · manor house associated with the family of George Washington · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Penshaw Monument

    The Penshaw Monument is a memorial in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Penshaw Hill in the metropolitan borough of the City of Sunderland, North East England. It is located near the village of Penshaw, between the towns of Washington and Houghton-le-Spring in historic County Durham.

    3.4 km · monument in Sunderland, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Chartershaugh 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.

    1.1 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Cox Green footbridge

    Cox Green Footbridge is a footbridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Cox Green and Washington Staithes. The bridge opened in 1958, replacing a former ferry route.

    2.8 km · Bridge in Tyne & Wear · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Penshaw Bridge

    Penshaw Bridge, also known as Fatfield Bridge, is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield. The bridge was opened on 29 January 1890.

    1.2 km · bridge in Sunderland, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington

    M The Galleries is a shopping centre located in Washington, City of Sunderland.

    2.2 km · shopping mall in Tyne and Wear, England · 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.

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Getting to Harraton

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 20 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 113 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 166 km
Stations
Washington Galleries bus station, 2.1 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Harraton
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £14–19
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Harraton
    624 km · quickest by air, 9h 22m · £300–430
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Harraton
    367 km · quickest by road, 6h 29m · £40–55
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Harraton

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 Harraton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    241 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    268 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    297 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    370 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    379 km

If you know how people move in Harraton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Harraton

Harraton is 11 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Washingtontown in the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England2.3 km
  • Birtleytown in Tyne and Wear, UK3.5 km
  • Rickletonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK1 km
  • Philadelphiavillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.7 km
  • Albanyvillage and suburb of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.1 km
  • Cox Greenvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.4 km