Fence Houses
Fence Houses, or Fencehouses is a village in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. It came into existence when Napoleonic prisoners were housed on the outskirts of Houghton-le-Spring.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- Also known as: “Fencehouses”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Andrew and Rainton Meadows.
Rainton Meadows
Nature reserve
Photo: Jimmy Pitt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rainton Meadows is a nature reserve just to the west of East Rainton, County Durham, north-east England. The reserve, which covers 60 ha, and the adjacent Joe's Pond Site of Special Scientific Interest, are managed by Durham Wildlife Trust.
Joe’s Pond
Protected area
Photo: Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Joe's Pond is a 4-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest that lies to the east of, and adjacent to, the Rainton Meadows nature reserve in Tyne and Wear, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chilton Moor and Woodstone Village.
Chilton Moor
Village
Chilton Moor is a village in Tyne and Wear, England. The village is located between Houghton le Spring and Fence Houses on the Tyne and Wear/County Durham county boundary.
Woodstone Village
Village
Woodstone Village is a hamlet in the civil parish of Little Lumley, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It neighbours the larger villages of Fencehouses and Burnmoor.
Lumley Thicks
Hamlet
Lumley Thicks is a small village in County Durham, in England. It is situated between Chester-le-Street and Houghton-le-Spring, north of Great Lumley.
Fence Houses
- Category: locality
- Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.84548° or 54° 50′ 44″ northLongitude
-1.50163° or 1° 30′ 6″ westElevation
151 feet (46 metres)Open location code
9C6WRFWX+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 29343215OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Fence Houses” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Fence Houses”
- Dutch: “Fence Houses”
- French: “Fence Houses”
- Irish: “Fence Houses”
- Polish: “Fence Houses”
- Welsh: “Fence Houses”
- Welsh: “Fencehouses”
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