Sunderland
Worth seeing in and around Sunderland
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.
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- 04Wearmouth Bridge
Grade II listed through arch bridge in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
600 m · Wikipedia - 05
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- 09Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens
Museum in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
100 m · Wikipedia - 10St Mary's Church, Sunderland
Church building in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
400 m · 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 Sunderland
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 25 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 117 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 171 km
- Stations
- South Hylton, 4.2 km · St Peter's, 700 m · Monkwearmouth Station Museum, 900 m
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Sunderland124 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £14–18
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Sunderland170 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · £20–27
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sunderland168 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · £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 Sunderland
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 Sunderland. 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 Sunderland – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Sunderland
Sunderland is 17 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Burdonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK5.6 km
- Whitburnvillage in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England5.4 km
- Monkwearmoutharea of Sunderland, England1.1 km
- Cleadonvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK5.8 km
- Ryhopevillage along the southern boundary of the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, North East England4.2 km
- Seaburnsuburb in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.3 km