Victoria Viaduct
Victoria Viaduct, originally known as the Victoria Bridge, is a stone arch rail viaduct spanning the River Wear about 1 mile south-east of Washington in the City of Sunderland North East England.Photo: Brian Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Bridge
- Description: rail viaduct spanning the River Wear in North East England
- Also known as: “Victoria Bridge”, “Victoria Railway Bridge”, and “Victoria Railway Viaduct”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Penshaw Bridge and Biddick Hall.
Penshaw Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Martin Le Roy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Penshaw Bridge, also known as Fatfield Bridge, is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield. The bridge was opened on 29 January 1890. Penshaw Bridge is situated 3,000 feet southwest of Victoria Viaduct.
Biddick Hall
Manor estate
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biddick Hall is a small privately owned 18th-century country mansion at Bournmoor, County Durham, near the City of Sunderland and Chester-le-Street. It is a Grade I listed building and the home of the Lambton family. Biddick Hall is situated 1¼ miles south of Victoria Viaduct.
Chartershaugh Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Craigy144, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chartershaugh Bridge is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield as part of the A182 road. The bridge was opened in 1975 and is named after the former settlement of Chartershaugh, which once stood on a site near the bridge. Chartershaugh Bridge is situated 1 mile southwest of Victoria Viaduct.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cox Green and Penshaw.
Cox Green
Hamlet
Photo: Craigy144, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cox Green is a village in the Sunderland district, Tyne and Wear, England, situated on the south bank of the River Wear between Penshaw and Offerton. The village is linked to Washington Staithes on the north bank of the river, by the Cox Green Footbridge.
Penshaw
Village
Photo: FTMSuperfly, Public domain.
Penshaw, formerly known as Painshaw or Pensher is a village in the metropolitan district of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Historically, Penshaw was located in County Durham.
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.
Victoria Viaduct
- Categories: railway bridge and transportation
- Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.88479° or 54° 53′ 5″ northLongitude
-1.50318° or 1° 30′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C6WVFMW+WPOpenStreetMap ID
way 570573247OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeWikidata ID
Q7927125
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In Other Languages
“Victoria Viaduct” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Victoria Viaduct”
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