Oxclose
Oxclose is an area of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England. It is located between the A1231, A182 and A195 highways, close to Sunderland, and is well served by links from the A1 which passes within 1 mile of Oxclose's boundaries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oxclose Church and Washington Galleries bus station.
Washington Galleries bus station
Bus station
Washington Galleries Bus Station is located in the town of Washington in Tyne and Wear. The bus station was constructed in the early 1970s, to serve the adjacent Galleries Shopping Centre, which opened in 1974.
Oxclose Community Academy
School
Oxclose Community Academy is a coeducational secondary school located in Oxclose in the town of Washington, Tyne and Wear, Tyne and Wear, England. The school was rebuilt in 2007 under the Building Schools for the Future programme.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Washington and Albany.
Washington
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Washington is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It was a small mining village but from 1964 became the core of a planned New Town, with a population of over 67,000 in 2011.
Albany
Suburb
Photo: Brian Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Albany is a suburb of Washington in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, historically part of County Durham. It is in the north of the town. The village is also relatively close to The Galleries Shopping Centre, Washington.
Concord
Suburb
Concord is an area of Washington in City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Historically, Concord was part of County Durham, joining the county of Tyne and Wear in 1974, following its creation.
Oxclose
- Type: Suburb
- Description: village and suburb of Washington, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.89828° or 54° 53′ 54″ northLongitude
-1.54113° or 1° 32′ 28″ westElevation
223 feet (68 metres)Open location code
9C6WVFX5+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 2190137642OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Oxclose” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Oxclose”
- French: “Oxclose”
- Irish: “Oxclose”
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