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SR Postcode Area
The SR postcode area, also known as the Sunderland postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of eight postcode districts in north-east England, within three post towns. These cover eastern Tyne and Wear (including Sunderland) and north-east County Durham (including Seaham and Peterlee). __TOC__ Coverage The approximate coverage of the postcode districts: , - ! SR1 , SUNDERLAND , Sunderland City Centre, East End, Hendon (north of Egerton Street) , Sunderland , - ! SR2 , SUNDERLAND , Ashbrooke, Ryhope, Grangetown, Hendon (south of Salisbury Street), Hillview, Thornhill , Sunderland , - ! SR3 , SUNDERLAND , Chapelgarth, Doxford Park, Farringdon, Elstob Farm, Essen Way, Gilley Law, Hall Farm, Herrington, Humbledon Hill, Mill Hill, Moorside, Plains Farm, Ryhope, Silksworth, Springwell Village, Thorney Close, Tunstall , Sunderland , - ! SR4 , SUNDERLAND , Ayres Quay, Barnes, Chester Road, Deptford, Ford Estate, Grindon, Hast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyne And Wear
Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. It is bordered by Northumberland to the north and Durham to the south; the county boundary was formerly split between these counties with the border as the River Tyne. The former county council was based at Sandyford House. There is no longer county level local governance following the county council disbanding in 1986, by the Local Government Act 1985, with the metropolitan boroughs functioning separately. The county still exists as a metropolitan county and ceremonial purposes, as a geographic frame of reference. There are two combined authorities covering parts of the county area, North of Tyne and North East. History In the late 600s and into the 700s Saint Bede lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennywell
Pennywell is one of the UK's largest post-war social housing schemes, and is situated in the central-west area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, North East England. Pennywell is the largest local authority housing estate in the City of Sunderland. The estate mostly built during the late 1940s and early 1950s to replace 19th century slums in the centre of Sunderland. The name Pennywell is of Celtic origin and is thought to mean "wellspring at the top of the hill". The Pennywell estate consists of nearly 3,000 homes, around 11% of which are privately owned and has a total population of 10,709 This figure is considerably lower than in previous decades, when the Pennywell area housed over 20,000 people. An industrial area on the western edge of the suburb has, among other businesses Calsonic's injection moulding plant and the ''Sunderland Echo'' building. Crime Pennywell has traditionally been associated with high crime rates since the estate was completed in 1953. Knife crime and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pallion
Pallion is a suburb and electoral ward in North West Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Most of the buildings in the area were built during the Victorian Era and consist of large terraced houses built for shipbuilders, but also smaller one-storey cottages in other areas for local workers (the shipyard industry has now long gone). The place-name 'Pallion' is first attested in 1328, where it appears as ''le Pavylion''. This is a French name meaning 'the Pavilion'. On the edge of the parish (on the bank of the River Wear) once stood Pallion Hall, the childhood home of Sir Joseph Swan, developer of the lightbulb. The house was demolished in 1901. Near this part of the area is a retail park, Pallion Metro station and an industrial estate. The new Northern Spire Bridge crosses the Wear just to the north of here. Pallion was also the home of the infamous New Monkey club, which had shaped rave culture in the North East. The club was shut down in 2006 after a drugs raid where ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millfield, Tyne And Wear
Millfield is a suburb and electoral ward of the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Most of the buildings in the area were built after the Victorian Era and are mostly built up of large terraced houses built for working-class people of the 20th century. When first built Millfield was located near the heart of Sunderland City Centre, but now has expanded. It now links Pallion with the City Centre. Millfield like Pallion is built very near the bank of the River Wear but then extends to Chester Road (The largest road in Sunderland & Washington). Also located in Millfeild is an Aldi Supermarket and right next to the supermarket is the Millfield Metro station. Millfield was part of the Sunderland South parliamentary constituency for elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Millfield is now part of Sunderland Central Sunderland Central is a constituency in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. It is represented by the Labour Party MP Julie Elli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grindon, Sunderland
Grindon is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a metropolitan county in North East England, situated around the mouths of the rivers Tyne and Wear. It was created in 1974, by the Local Government Act 1972, along with five metropolitan boroughs of Gateshead, Newc ..., in the United Kingdom. Located three miles to the west of the city centre along ''Chester Road'', Grindon originated as a Norman-era manor holding and was recreated into a post-war housing estate in the 20th century. History Historical linguists state that the name "Grindon" is derived from Old English and may mean "Green Hill", a reference to the geographic feature of the local Sandhill. The placename first appears in the Boldon Book dated from 1183 which states that the land was granted from the Bishop of Durham to Walter De Roth. In 2004 the electoral ward of Grindon was changed to include Thorney Close and is now known as the Sandhill Ward. Pennywell Road is the location ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Estate
Ford Estate (known as ''Ford'' locally) is a suburb in the south of Sunderland. The suburb is divided into two areas: High Ford borders the estate of Pennywell. Low Ford, to the east, borders the suburb of Pallion. Much like the neighbouring estate of Pennywell, Ford Estate is currently undergoing large levels of urban regeneration with private housing now standing in the place of the homes people were forcibly evicted from. At the heart of the area once stood Ford Hall (after which the area is named), the childhood home of General Havelock, and a road is named after him near the site as well as a few public houses outside the suburb. The house was demolished in the middle of the twentieth century and was rebuilt as a retirement home. Most of the houses in Ford Estate were built in the 1930s and 1940s, and most of the street names begin with the letter F, and also contain the word ford in them, examples of this are Falmouth Road, Fordham Road, Fordfield Road and Falkland Road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnes, Sunderland
Barnes is an inner suburb in the southwest of Sunderland in northeast England, situated about a mile from the city centre. The area is split into Barnes, which lies towards the east, and High Barnes, which lies around Barnes Park and the Bede Sixth Form Centre of City of Sunderland College. Barnes is bounded by Chester Road to the north, Durham Road on the south, Springwell Road to the west and the city centre to the east. However, these boundaries are not officially set; views vary as to where the area begins and ends. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 Census was 10,987. There are two churches in the vicinity of High Barnes, Ewesley Road Methodist Church and St. Gabriel's Church. History The specific name of "The Barnes" evolved from what was described as "The Barnes of the Manor of Hameldon" a former medieval village which existed in the area in reference to the nearby Humbledon Hill. After the estate was partitioned, the Barnes became the property of the Bowes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayres Quay
Ayres may refer to: People *Ayres (surname) Companies * Ayres (sports company), a British sports equipment manufacturer * L. S. Ayres, an Indiana department store founded in 1872 * Ayres Corp., a former US aircraft manufacturer * Ayre and Sons, a department store chain in Newfoundland, Canada Other uses * Ayres Rock in South Australia, and named for a former Premier of South Australia * Point of Ayre and the Ayres National Nature Reserve in the Isle of Man. * Ayres, former name of Zama, Mississippi * Ayres Natural Bridge Park, a formation along the Oregon Trail in the State of Wyoming * Ayres (music) * ''Ayres'' (album) See also * Ayre (other) Ayre is one of the six sheadings (governmental subdivisions) in the Isle of Man. Ayre may also refer to: People * Ayre (surname) Geography *Ayre (landform), a shingle beach, particularly in Orkney and Shetland *Point of Ayre, northernmost point ... * Eyre (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunstall, Sunderland
Tunstall is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England which is mostly a privately purchased estate. It is located to the west of Ryhope, and east of Silksworth. The area was built around a large hill, known as ''Tunstall Hill''. Since 1966 pilgrims have erected crucifixes on the hill every Good Friday. It is the location of Venerable Bede Church of England Academy, which is on the former site of Ryhope Colliery and later Ryhope golf course. History Tunstall is a village that has been present since the early middle ages, first mentioned in the 1183 Norman era Boldon Book the contemporary village green continues to mirror its medieval shape. By the 14th century, Hatfield's survey of Durham recorded 12 tenants in the village who held 110 acres of block demesne A demesne ( ) or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support. This distinguished it from land sub-enfeoffed by him to others ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thorney Close
Thorney Close is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in England. It is located on the northern edge of the A690 road, A690 (Durham Road), and borders with Grindon, Sunderland, Grindon to the north and Herrington to the south, and the A19 road, A19 to the west. Originally emerging as a Tudor era manor estate and orchard, Thorney Close was purchased by Sunderland authorities in the late 1940s and transformed into one of first its post-war housing states. History Middle Ages and Tudor Period The specific origins of the Thorney Close estate and its name remain unclear. During the Middle Ages, the land was speculated to either be part of the neighbouring Farringdon, Sunderland, Farringdon Hall estate, or is speculated by historians to be part of the former "Clowcroft" estate of which the precise location remains unknown. However, by the Tudor era the name ''"Thornye Close''" appears in historical record, having been owned by three times Mayor of Newcastle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
