Penshaw Bridge
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.Photo: Martin Le Roy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Andy Brass, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in Sunderland, England
- Also known as: “East Bridge” and “Fatfield bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Fatfield War Memorial and Chartershaugh Bridge.
Fatfield War Memorial
Memorial
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fatfield War Memorial is situated 400 feet west of Penshaw Bridge.
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 1,700 feet southwest of Penshaw Bridge.
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 4,100 feet south of Penshaw Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penshaw and Cox Green.
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.
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.
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.
Penshaw Bridge
- Categories: road bridge and transportation
- Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.88005° or 54° 52′ 48″ northLongitude
-1.51509° or 1° 30′ 54″ westOpen location code
9C6WVFJM+2XOpenStreetMap ID
way 570573248OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeWikidata ID
Q85792749
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