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The Sunderland Center Historic District encompasses the historic center of the farming town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, on the plains of the Connecticut River.The multi-acre district runs along North and South Main Street (Massachusetts Route 47), roughly from Old Amherst Road to North Silver Lane, and includes Bridge Street and the Sunderland Bridge across the river.
James Watson Corder (1867–1953) is a historian best remembered for documenting family history in Sunderland, County Durham, England. His volumes are invaluable to people interested in genealogy today.
Sunderland City Centre is part of the Sunderland Central parliamentary constituency.. For local elections, it is currently divided between three wards of the city council. The majority of the city centre, lying to the west of Fawcett Street and the north of Holmeside, is located in Millfield wa
By 1770 Sunderland had spread westwards along its High Street to join up with Bishopwearmouth. [18] In 1796 Bishopwearmouth in turn gained a physical link with Monkwearmouth following the construction of a bridge, the Wearmouth Bridge , which was the world's second iron bridge (after the famous span at Ironbridge ). [ 42 ]
Sunniside is a district of Sunderland, North East England, towards the eastern side of the city centre, bounded to the west by Fawcett Street, to the south by Borough Road, and to the north and east by the Inner Ring road. A significant programme of urban development has established Sunniside as a centre of culture, film, dining, entertainment ...
Bishopwearmouth (/ ˌ b ɪ ʃ ə p ˈ w ɪər m aʊ θ / [1]) is a former village and parish which now constitutes the west side of Sunderland City Centre, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, merging with the settlement as it expanded outwards in the 18th and 19th centuries.
1634 – Bishop Morton's Charter created Sunderland's first Mayor and Corporation. [1] West View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland. 1698 – Formation of Sunderland Company of Glassmakers; 1669 – Letters patent permitted the erection of a pier and lighthouse. [1] 1719 – Sunderland Parish's Holy Trinity Church opened
The Keel Line, remembering the shipbuilders of Sunderland and the ships built upon the river wear. Keel Square was designed by Sunderland City Council’s in-house multi-disciplinary team led by Principal Landscape Architect Kevin Johnson. [4] The central purpose of the square is to celebrate Sunderland's Maritime and Industrial Heritage. [5]