Whitburn
Whitburn is a village in South Tyneside, in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear on the coast of North East England. It is located 3 miles north of the city of Sunderland and 4 miles south of the town of South Shields.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,350 residents
- Description: village in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England
- Also known as: “Whitburn, South Tyneside” and “Whitburn, Tyne and Wear”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whitburn Mill and Whitburn Church of England Academy.
Whitburn Church of England Academy
School
Photo: peter robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitburn Church of England Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Whitburn, South Tyneside. Its motto is "Excellence for all".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seaburn and Cleadon.
Seaburn
Suburb
Seaburn is a seaside resort and northeastern suburb of Sunderland, North East England. The village of Whitburn borders the area to the north. To the west and south-west is Fulwell and to the south the coastal resort of Roker.
Cleadon
Village
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cleadon is a suburban village in South Tyneside in the North East of England. Prior to the creation of Tyne and Wear in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972, the village was part of the historic County Durham.
Fulwell
Suburb
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fulwell is an affluent area and former civil parish in the Sunderland district, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. The parish was abolished in 1928 as a result of the Sunderland Corporation Act 1927, and the area incorporated into the former County Borough of Sunderland. Fulwell is situated 2 miles southwest of Whitburn.
Whitburn
- Category: locality
- Location: South Tyneside, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.95299° or 54° 57′ 11″ northLongitude
-1.36695° or 1° 22′ 1″ westPopulation
5,350Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)Open location code
9C6WXJ3M+56OpenStreetMap ID
node 467128727OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2634138Wikidata ID
Q7994159
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Whitburn” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Whitburn (Tyne eta Wear)”
- Basque: “Whitburn”
- Cebuano: “Whitburn”
- Chinese: “惠特本”
- Dutch: “Whitburn”
- French: “Whitburn”
- Irish: “Whitburn”
- Japanese: “ウィットバーン”
- Japanese: “ホイットバーン”
- Persian: “وایتبرن، تاین و ور”
- Polish: “Whitburn (South Tyneside)”
- Polish: “Whitburn”
- Portuguese: “Whitburn”
- Russian: “Уитберн”
- Swedish: “Whitburn, England”
- Swedish: “Whitburn”
- Welsh: “Whitburn, Tyne and Wear”
- Welsh: “Whitburn”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Whitburn”. Photo: peter robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.