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Shiney Row is a village in Houghton-le-Spring,
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 ...
, England. One of the most notable people who was born in Shiney Row is
Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, JP (18 March 1814 – 23 December 1893) was a mining engineer and self-made businessman from Gateshead in the North-East of England. A colliery labourer who went on to own several coal mines, he later bought ...
, owner of the factory that produced the first Transatlantic telegraph cable.


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City of Sunderland suburbs {{TyneandWear-geo-stub