River Wear
The River Wear in Northern England rises in the Pennines and flows eastwards, mostly through County Durham, to the North Sea in the City of Sunderland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in North East England
- Also known as: “Wear”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stadium of Light and Wave Basin Battery Adjacent To Old South Pier.
Stadium of Light
Stadium
Photo: Blackcat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Stadium of Light is an all-seater football stadium in Sunderland, England, and the eighth and current home to Sunderland. With seating for 49,000 spectators, the Stadium of Light is the 10th largest football stadium in England.
Wave Basin Battery Adjacent To Old South Pier
Fort
Photo: Stanley John James, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wave Basin Battery Adjacent To Old South Pier is a fort.
Roker Pier lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Steve F, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roker is a seaside resort in Sunderland, city of Sunderland district, Tyne and Wear. England. It is located north of the River Wear and Monkwearmouth, east of the southern part of Fulwell with the coastal resort of Seaburn to its north.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monkwearmouth and Seaburn.
Monkwearmouth
Suburb
Photo: R J McNaughton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Monkwearmouth is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in England. Monkwearmouth is located at the north side of the mouth of the River Wear. It was one of the three original settlements on the banks of the River Wear along with Bishopwearmouth and Sunderland.
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.
Sunderland
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sunderland is a city in Tyne and Wear in northeast England, with a population of 171,000 in 2021. It's industrial, but has lost traditional trades such as shipbuilding, and is still re-inventing itself.
River Wear
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“River Wear” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ملابس النهر”
- Asturian: “Ríu Wear”
- Basque: “Wear ibaia”
- Bavarian: “Wear”
- Belarusian: “Рака Уір”
- Belarusian: “Уір”
- Cebuano: “River Wear”
- Chinese: “威尔河”
- Chinese: “威爾河”
- Chuvash: “Уир”
- Dutch: “Wear”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ويار”
- Esperanto: “Viuro”
- Estonian: “Wear”
- Estonian: “Weari jõgi”
- Finnish: “Wear”
- French: “Wear”
- German: “Wear”
- Hausa: “Kogin Wear”
- Hebrew: “River Wear”
- Hindi: “वीयर नदी”
- Hungarian: “Wear”
- Italian: “Wear (fiume)”
- Italian: “Wear”
- Japanese: “ウィア川”
- Japanese: “ウェア川”
- Ladin: “Wear”
- Latin: “Viurus”
- Latin: “Wirus”
- Malayalam: “വിയർ നദി”
- Northern Frisian: “Wear”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wear”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “River Wear”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wear”
- Norwegian: “Wear”
- Polish: “Wear”
- Portuguese: “Rio wear”
- Portuguese: “Rio Wear”
- Russian: “Уир”
- Serbian: “Вир”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wear”
- Slovak: “Wear”
- Spanish: “Rio Wear”
- Spanish: “Río Wear”
- Swedish: “Wear”
- Turkish: “Wear Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Вір”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Wear”
- Welsh: “Afon Wear”
- Western Frisian: “Wear (rivier)”
- Western Frisian: “Wear”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sunderland Harbour and Stadium of Light.
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