Bishopwearmouth Burn or the Barnes Burn is a stream flowing through the city of Sunderland. A tributary of the River Wear, the stream originates between

Thorney Close Thorney Close is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in England. It is located on the northern edge of the A690 (Durham Road), and borders with Grindon to the north and Herrington to the south, and the A19 to the west. Originally emerging ...

and

Hastings Hill Hastings Hill is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Hastings Hill is a housing estate A housing estate (or sometimes housing complex or housing development) is a group of homes and other buildings built together as a si ...

farm It proceeds to run through Barnes Park and its extensions before going underground due to modern housing and meeting the river at what was

Bishopwearmouth Bishopwearmouth is a former village and parish which now constitutes the west side of Sunderland City Centre, merging with the settlement as it expanded outwards in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is home to the Sunderland Minster church, which ...

, where it was also referred to as the "Rector's Gill".

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