Marsden Rock
Marsden Rock is a rock in Tyne and Wear, North East England, situated in Marsden, South Shields. It is overlooked by the Marsden Grotto. The rock is a 90 feet sea stack of Magnesian Limestone which lies approximately 300 feet off the main cliff face.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Susan McGinty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marsden Grotto and Souter Lighthouse.
Marsden Grotto
Restaurant
Photo: PaulLomax, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Marsden Grotto, locally known as The Grotto, is a gastropub located on the coast at Marsden in South Shields, Tyne & Wear, England. It is partly dug into the cliff face and fronted with a more conventional building opening onto the beach.
Souter Lighthouse
Museum
Photo: Glenn Scott, Public domain.
Souter Lighthouse is a lighthouse located to the North of Whitburn, South Tyneside, England. Souter Point was the first lighthouse in the world to be actually designed and built specifically to use alternating electric current, the most advanced lighthouse technology of its day.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Harton and Whitburn.
Harton
Suburb
Photo: Roger Cornfoot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Harton is a suburban area of South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It was historically a village, however as the urban area grew it merged with its adjacent villages to become part of the town.
Whitburn
Village
Photo: peter robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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. Whitburn is situated 1½ miles south of Marsden Rock.
Westoe
Suburb
Photo: Terry Whalebone, CC BY 2.0.
Westoe was originally a village near South Shields, in the South Tyneside district, in Tyne and Wear, England, but has since become part of the town and is now used to refer to the area of the town where the village once was. Westoe is situated 2 miles west of Marsden Rock.
Marsden Rock
- Type: Rock
- Description: rock formation in Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
- Categories: rock formation, natural arch, tourism, tourist attraction, and landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.97746° or 54° 58′ 39″ northLongitude
-1.37539° or 1° 22′ 31″ westElevation
3 feet (1 metre)Open location code
9C6WXJGF+XROpenStreetMap ID
way 728795539OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bare_rockOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
2642989Wikidata ID
Q6773244
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Marsden Rock” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Marsden Rock”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Marsden”
- Polish: “Marsden Rock”
- Swedish: “Marsden Rock”
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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 “Marsden Rock”. Photo: Susan McGinty, CC BY-SA 2.0.