St Aidan’s Catholic Academy

St Aidan's Catholic Academy is a Roman Catholic boys' secondary school and sixth form with academy status, situated in the Ashbrooke area of Sunderland.

Type: School
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Description: school in Sunderland, UK
Also known as: “St Aidan’s Catholic School”
Address: Willow Bank Road, Ashbrooke, Sunderland, SR2 7HJ

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Thornhill Academy and Park Lane.

Thornhill Academy

School

Thornhill Academy is a co-educational secondary school located in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Thornhill Academy admits pupils mainly from Barnes Junior School, Diamond Hall Junior School, Hudson Road Primary School and Richard Avenue Primary School. Thornhill Academy is situated 1,500 feet northwest of St Aidan’s Catholic Academy.

Park Lane

Railway station

Photo: DoctorMadUK90, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Park Lane Interchange is a multimodal transport hub, serving the port city of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the site of the former Park Lane Bus Station, which dated from the 1930s. Park Lane is situated 3,400 feet north of St Aidan’s Catholic Academy.

Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens

Museum

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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is a municipal museum in Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. It contains the only known British example of a gliding reptile, the oldest known vertebrate capable of gliding flight. Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens is situated 1 mile north of St Aidan’s Catholic Academy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ashbrooke and Grangetown.

Ashbrooke

Suburb

Ashbrooke is a residential area of Sunderland, North East England directly south and south-west of the city centre. Ashbrooke developed through the Victorian era as Sunderland's first suburb.

Grangetown

Suburb

Grangetown is a suburb of the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Grangetown, which is an area within the Hendon Metropolitan District, was part of the Sunderland South parliamentary constituency for elections to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, but in 2010 was made a ward of the new Sunderland Central parliamentary constituency.

Plains Farm

Suburb

Plains Farm is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, and is a council-built housing estate, erected in the 1940s. Neighbouring areas include Silksworth, Barnes, Thorney Close, Springwell and Farringdon.