Southwick
Southwick is a former village and now a suburb on the north banks of the River Wear in Sunderland, in the county of Tyne and Wear, England, historically in County Durham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Brian Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb with 10,500 residents
- Description: former village and now suburb in the city of Sunderland, England
- Also known as: “Southwick-on-Wear” and “Southwick, Sunderland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stadium of Light and Queen Alexandra Bridge.
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 space for 49,000 spectators, the Stadium of Light is the 10th largest football stadium in England.
Queen Alexandra Bridge
Bridge
Photo: The JPS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Queen Alexandra Bridge is a road traffic, pedestrian and former railway bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking the Deptford and Southwick areas of Sunderland.
Monkwearmouth Hospital
Hospital
Monkwearmouth Hospital is a mental health facility on Newcastle Road, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland, England. It is managed by the Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fulwell and Pallion.
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.
Pallion
Suburb
Photo: Martin Routledge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pallion is a suburb and electoral ward in North West Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Most of the buildings in the area were built during the Victorian Era and consist of large terraced houses built for shipbuilders, but also smaller one-storey cottages in other areas for local workers.
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.
Southwick
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.92082° or 54° 55′ 15″ northLongitude
-1.40188° or 1° 24′ 7″ westPopulation
10,500Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB YKHOpen location code
9C6WWHCX+86OpenStreetMap ID
node 10924228450OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Swedish—“Southwick” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Southwick, Sunderland”
- Japanese: “サウスウィック”
- Polish: “Southwick”
- Swedish: “Southwick”
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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 “Southwick”. Photo: Brian Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0.