Marsden

Great sea-stack of magnesian limestone standing off Marsden Bay, loud with nesting kittiwakes and cormorants.

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Two and a half miles of clifftop grassland and limestone stacks along the coast from South Shields to Souter.

0.2 km W

Opened near Sunderland in 1871 as the world's first lighthouse purpose-built to use alternating electric current, its red-and-white bands now cared for by the National Trust.

1.2 km SE

Priory ruin on a headland above the sea.

5.2 km NW

Handsome coastal town of grand terraces and a lively Front Street above the sands and priory headland.

5.4 km NW · Tyne and Wear

Long curving Victorian breakwater at Sunderland with a red-and-white lighthouse and a hidden tunnel beneath.

6.5 km S