Sunderland
Sunderland, commonly known as Sunderland Point, is a small village among the marshes, on a windswept peninsula between the mouth of the River Lune and Morecambe Bay, in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dr Greg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Lancashire, UK
- Also known as: “Sunderland, Lancashire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sambo’s Grave and Plover Scar Lighthouse.
Sambo’s Grave
Memorial
Photo: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sambo's Grave is the burial site of a black cabin boy or slave on unconsecrated ground in a field near the small village of Sunderland Point, Lancashire, England.
Plover Scar Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Plover Scar Lighthouse, also known as the Abbey Lighthouse, is an active 19th century lighthouse sited at the entrance of the Lune estuary, near Cockersand Abbey in Lancashire, England.
Cockersand Abbey
Photo: John Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cockersand Abbey is a former abbey and former civil parish near Cockerham in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. It is situated near the mouth of the River Cocker.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glasson Dock and Overton.
Glasson Dock
Village
Photo: Rwendland, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasson Dock, also known as Glasson, is a village in Lancashire, England, south of Lancaster at the mouth of the River Lune. In 2011, it had a population of around 600.
Overton
Village
Photo: Ralph Rawlinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Overton is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, south west of Lancaster and south of Morecambe between Heysham and the estuary of the River Lune.
Stodday
Hamlet
Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stodday is a hamlet in the civil parish of Aldcliffe-with-Stodday, in the Lancaster district, in the county of Lancashire, England. It is just south of the city of Lancaster, near the A588 road and the River Lune. Stodday is situated 3 miles northeast of Sunderland.
Sunderland
- Category: locality
- Location: Overton, Lancaster, Lancashire, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.99694° or 53° 59′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.8762° or 2° 52′ 34″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)Open location code
9C5VX4WF+QGOpenStreetMap ID
node 6503631967OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Sunderland” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Sunderland”
- French: “Sunderland”
- German: “Sunderland”
- Irish: “Sunderland”
- Japanese: “サンダーランド”
- Polish: “Sunderland”
- Welsh: “Sunderland Point”
- Welsh: “Sunderland, Swydd Gaerhirfryn”
- Welsh: “Sunderland”
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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 “Sunderland”. Photo: Dr Greg, CC BY-SA 3.0.