Shiney Row
Shiney Row is a village in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, England.
Shiney Row is a village in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, England. One of the most notable people who was born in Shiney Row is Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, owner of the factory that produced the first Transatlantic telegraph cable.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Shiney Row
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 23 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 112 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 169 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Shiney Row119 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £14–19
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Shiney Row134 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £15–20
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Shiney Row162 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £20–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Shiney Row
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 Shiney Row. 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.
- 01244 km
- 02271 km
- 03300 km
- 04373 km
- 05382 km
If you know how people move in Shiney Row – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Shiney Row
Shiney Row is 14 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.