Monkwearmouth
Monkwearmouth is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in England.
Monkwearmouth is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in England. Monkwearmouth is at the north side of the mouth of the River Wear. It was one of the three original settlements on the banks of the River Wear along with Bishopwearmouth and Sunderland. It includes the area around St. Peter's Church, founded in 674 as part of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and was once the main centre of Wearside shipbuilding and coalmining in the town. It is now host to a campus of the University of Sunderland and the National Glass Centre. It is served by the three Church of England churches of the Parish of Monkwearmouth. The first nineteenth-century Catholic church built in Monkwearmouth was St Benet's Church which remains active today.
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Worth seeing in and around Monkwearmouth
10 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.
- 01Stadium of Light
The Stadium of Light is an all-seater football stadium in Sunderland, England, and the eighth and current home to Premier League club Sunderland. With seating for 49,000 spectators, the Stadium of Light is the 10th largest football stadium in England.
400 m · football stadium in Sunderland, England · Wikipedia - 02University of Sunderland
The University of Sunderland is a public research university located in Sunderland in the North East of England. Its predecessor, Sunderland Technical College, was established as a municipal training college in 1901.
1.2 km · university in Sunderland, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey
The Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Monkwearmouth–Jarrow, known simply as Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey, was a Benedictine double monastery in the Kingdom of Northumbria, England. Its first house was St Peter's, Monkwearmouth, on the River Wear, founded in AD 674–5.
500 m · Benedictine monastery · Wikipedia - 04Wearmouth Bridge
Wearmouth Bridge is a through arch bridge across the River Wear in Sunderland, England. It is the final bridge over the river before its mouth with the North Sea.
500 m · grade II listed through arch bridge in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Hylton 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.
4 km · castle in Sunderland, UK · Wikipedia - 06Sunderland Minster
The Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop is the minster church of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Formerly known as "St Michael & All Angels' Church", it served as the parish church for Bishopwearmouth, but was renamed in January 1998 after Sunderland was granted city status.
1.1 km · church in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Elephant Tea Rooms
The Elephant Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. The building was constructed from 1872 to 1877 by Henry Hopper to a design by architect Frank Caws for William Grimshaw, a local tea merchant and grocer, in a blend of the high Victorian Hindu Gothic and Venetian Gothic styles.
800 m · building in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Sunderland Empire Theatre
The Sunderland Empire Theatre is a large theatre venue located in High Street West in Sunderland, North East England. The theatre, which opened in 1907, is owned by City of Sunderland Council and operated by Ambassador Theatre Group Ltd, on behalf of Sunderland Empire Theatre Trust.
1 km · theatre in Sunderland, England · Wikipedia - 09Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight.
1.2 km · museum in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Phoenix Hall
Phoenix Lodge No. 94 is a Craft Lodge in Freemasonry under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England.
1.1 km · masonic hall in Sunderland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Monkwearmouth
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 24 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 118 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 170 km
- Stations
- Monkwearmouth Station Museum, 300 m · St Peter's, 400 m · Millfield, 1.5 km · University, 1.4 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Monkwearmouth125 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Monkwearmouth169 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £20–27
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Monkwearmouth169 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £20–27
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No local-transport research exists yet for Monkwearmouth
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 Monkwearmouth. 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.
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Next door to Monkwearmouth
Monkwearmouth is 16 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Bishopwearmouthvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK1.1 km
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