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Rickleton

Rickleton is an area of Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

Rickleton
Rickleton · Dave Morton
The place

Rickleton is an area of Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the south side of Washington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rickleton

7 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.

    3.3 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.

    2.9 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.

    3.4 km · manor house associated with the family of George Washington · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2 km · bridge in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.9 km · Bridge in Tyne & Wear · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington

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

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

    2.3 km · bridge in Sunderland, 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 Rickleton

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 20 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 113 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 166 km
Stations
Chester-le-Street railway station, 3.2 km · Washington Galleries bus station, 2.6 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rickleton
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · £14–18
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Rickleton
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £20–27
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rickleton
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £20–26
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rickleton

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 Rickleton. 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

    240 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    267 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    296 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    378 km

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

Around it

Next door to Rickleton

Rickleton 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, England3.1 km
  • Birtleytown in Tyne and Wear, UK2.9 km
  • Albanyvillage and suburb of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.4 km
  • Shiney Rowvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.8 km
  • Oxclosevillage and suburb of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England, UK2.1 km
  • Harratonsuburb of Washington, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom1.2 km