Monkwearmouth is an area of

Sunderland Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...

, Tyne and Wear in

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. Monkwearmouth is located at the north side of the mouth of the

River Wear The River Wear (, ) in North East England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland. At long, it is one of the region's longest rivers, wends in a steep valley through th ...

. It was one of the three original settlements on the banks of the River Wear along with Bishopwearmouth and Sunderland, the area now known as the East End. It includes the area around St. Peter's Church, founded in 674 as part of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and was once the main centre of Wearside shipbuilding and coalmining in the town. It is now host to a

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of the University of Sunderland and the National Glass Centre. It is served by the three Church of England churches of the

Parish of Monkwearmouth {{coord, 54.915, -1.383, display=title, region:GB_scale:20000 The Parish of Monkwearmouth is a Church of England parish in Monkwearmouth, England, served by the churches of St Peter's, All Saints' and St Andrew's. History The parish was originall ...

. The first nineteenth-century Catholic church built in Monkwearmouth was St Benet's Church which remains active today. Monkwearmouth is across the river from the Port of Sunderland at

Sunderland Docks Sunderland Docks is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Home to the Port of Sunderland, the docks have access to the North Sea. Sunderland City Council took over the port in 1972 and since then Deindustrialization, deindustrialisation ...

. The locals of the area were called "Barbary Coasters". The borough stretches from

Wearmouth Bridge Wearmouth Bridge is a through arch bridge across the River Wear in Sunderland. It is the final bridge over the river before its mouth with the North Sea. Original bridge The original Wearmouth Bridge was designed by Thomas Paine and opened in ...

to the

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mouth on the north side of the river and is one of the oldest parts of Sunderland. The former railway station, closed in 1968 by the

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, is now the

Monkwearmouth Station Museum Monkwearmouth Railway Station is former station that served Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, England, from 1848 to 1967. It was built in 1848 to a design by Thomas Moore. and was once the main railway station in the city. The railway station closed in ...

and features a restored booking office dating from the Edwardian period. Since 2002, Monkwearmouth has once again been served by rail transport, this time via St Peter's Tyne and Wear Metro station a few hundred metres south of the old station.

Wearmouth Colliery Monkwearmouth Colliery (or Wearmouth Colliery) was a major North Sea coal mine located on the north bank of the River Wear, located in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland. It was the largest mine in Sunderland and one of the most important in ...

, a coal mine, was closed in December 1993 after it had been in operation for over 100 years. The site is now the home of the

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, which opened in July 1997 and is the home of the football club Sunderland A.F.C., who had previously played at Roker Park. Monkwearmouth was part of the

Sunderland North Sunderland North was a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 2010. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. History Sunderl ...

parliamentary constituency for elections to the

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. Monkwearmouth is now part of Sunderland Central.

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