South Shields

Priory ruin on a headland above the sea.

2.1 km N

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

2.3 km NW · Tyne and Wear

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

3 km SE

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

3.2 km SE

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.

4.3 km SE

White-domed Edwardian pleasure dome on Whitley Bay seafront, restored to eateries and a tearoom.

5.9 km NW