Find Places To Visit In Sunderland, Tyne And Wear

Lifesize statue of a female welder from the World War II era by Dr Ron Lawson on the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland.

The remains of a coal staithes for the Wearmouth Pit.

Country park with fantastic views over to Penshaw Monument

A towering stone cross commemorating the life of The Venerable Bede, on Roker seafront.

Five silvery steel girders piercing the promontory at St Peter's in Sunderland and growing into the form of a cormorant taking to the sky.

A former Royal Air Force site with lots of planes and ghosts.

A Grade I listed building with origins dating back to the 7th century.

A life size reminder of The Vaux Brewery wagons and Dray horses by Ray Lonsdale.

The Sunderland Codex sculpture outside the University of Sunderland vividly depicts the Codex Amiatinus, the world's oldest single-volume Latin Bible.

A Victorian park with many fine features, sculptures, and modern-day art installations including reference to Lewis Carroll.

Something for all ages, from dinosaurs to mining, shipbuilding, glass, art, natural history, and an arboretum!

A Victorian Public Park dating from 1880.

19th century lime kilns, located on the River Wear.

A sandstone ruined house that is part of a collection of sculptures on the Riverside Sculpture Trail.

An original working Victorian Water Pumping Station operated by steam.

A single-span, through arch road bridge, built in 1928-29 by Sir William Arrol and Company Ltd., and designed by Mott, Hay and Anderson, and a bowstring arch railway bridge built in 1879.

A cast iron lighthouse set in Roker Cliff Park.

Four sculptures outside the Stadium Of Light that commemorate the city's industrial past.

A stunning example of a lighthouse in Sunderland with a parabolic pier.

The wreck of concrete tug 'Cretehawser' which sits on the banks of the River Wear.

Artwork of a steel tree that stands at the location of an actual riverside crane.

A modernist building, especially built for the study, teaching, demonstrating and display of all things glass.

Old lime kilns at Fulwell, now a fancy backdrop for a car showroom.

WW1 acoustic mirror, which detected German Zeppelins as they approached the coast.

A 19th Century Windmill in Fulwell, built for Joseph Swan in 1806.

14th century gatehouse tower built by Sir William Hylton.

A memorial in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Penshaw Hill owned by the National Trust.

This is the trig point for Tunstall Hills (112m) near Sunderland.

This is the trig point for Penshaw Hill (136m) near Sunderland.

This is the trig point for Hasting Hill (124m) near Sunderland.