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Around this time, Sunderland was known as 'Sunderland-near-the-Sea'. [41] A South East View of Wearmouth Bridge (c.1796). By 1770 Sunderland had spread westwards along its High Street to join up with Bishopwearmouth. [18]
The National Glass Centre opened in 1998, reflecting Sunderland's distinguished history of glass-making. [165] Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, on Borough Road, was the first municipally funded museum in the country outside London. [64] It houses a comprehensive collection of the locally produced Sunderland Lustreware pottery. The City ...
Following is a list of dates in the history of Sunderland, the ancient city in North East England. Facts and figures, important dates in Sunderland's history.
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.
Sunderland (/ ˈ s ʌ n d ər l ə n d /), [5] also known as the City of Sunderland, is a metropolitan borough with city status in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England.It is named after its largest settlement, Sunderland, spanning a far larger area, including nearby towns including Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring, as well as the surrounding villages and hamlets.
The artist L. S. Lowry visited Sunderland repeatedly and painted pictures of the industrial landscape around the river. Four bridges cross the Wear in Sunderland: the Northern Spire Bridge to the west, the Queen Alexandra Bridge, and the Wearmouth rail and road bridges in the city centre.
Sunderland is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States, part of the Pioneer Valley. The population was 3,663 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area .
See also History of Sunderland. Archaeological excavations around North Hylton and South Hylton indicate the area has been occupied since at least the Mesolithic era. [2] The remains of either a Bronze Age or Iron Age log boat and bronze swords were recovered from the nearby River Wear in the 19th and early 20th centuries.