Sunniside, Gateshead
Sunniside is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, which is located around 5.5 miles (9 km) from Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sunniside is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, which is located around 5.5 miles (9 km) from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to the creation of the county of Tyne and Wear in 1974, it was part of Whickham Urban District, which in turn formed a part of County Durham.
Sunniside has a busy Front Street, with a collection of pubs, shops, and amenities. The village is surrounded mainly by farmland, with plantations of trees to the east, whilst also neighbouring the villages of Byermoor, Marley Hill and Whickham.
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Worth seeing in and around Sunniside, Gateshead
4 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.
- 01Metrocentre
Metrocentre is a shopping centre and entertainment complex in the Dunston area of Gateshead. It is located on the former site of Dunston Power Station, near to the River Tyne.
3.5 km · shopping and leisure complex in north east England · Wikipedia - 02Ravensworth Castle
Ravensworth Castle is a ruinous Grade II* listed building and a scheduled monument situated at Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England. The building has been destroyed and rebuilt a number of times, and was the seat of the Ravensworth barons, the Liddells.
2.8 km · castle in Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Axwell House
Axwell House is a mansion house and Grade II* listed building, at Axwell Park, Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, England. The house and surrounding estate were constructed in 1758 and owned by the Clavering baronets until 1920.
3.3 km · country house in Blaydon, Tyne and Wear, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Banqueting House, Gibside
The Banqueting House is an 18th-century building, part of the Gibside estate, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Its style has been described as "Gothick".
2.3 km · banqueting house · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sunniside, Gateshead
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 12 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 118 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 156 km
- Stations
- Dunston railway station, 3.7 km · MetroCentre railway station, 3.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Sunniside, Gateshead117 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–18
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Sunniside, Gateshead170 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £20–27
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sunniside, Gateshead160 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · £19–26
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sunniside, Gateshead
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 Sunniside, Gateshead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPort of Tyne, east of city centre, has overnight DFDS ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam.
- Get aroundThe Transport North East Day Ticket covers bus, Metro, rail and ferry services within Tyne and Wear for £6.00 per day, or £6.80 including County Durham and Northumberland.
- Get aroundA ride from city centre to the airport in 2022 is around £15, and to the ferry terminal is £18.
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Next door to Sunniside, Gateshead
Sunniside, Gateshead is 7 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Whickhamtown in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK2.3 km
- Dunstonarea of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead4 km
- Byermoorvillage in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom2.3 km
- Lobley Hillsuburb of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.2 km
- Marley Hillvillage in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom1 km
- Swalwellvillage in Tyne and Wear, England, UK3.1 km