Places to explore near East Boldon StationEast Boldon

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

4.4 km NE

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

4.5 km NE

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.

4.5 km NE

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

5.2 km SE

Hundred acres of wetland, wood and meadow on the Wear, home to wild birds, flamingos and otters.

6.7 km SW

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

7.9 km SW

Priory ruin on a headland above the sea.

7.9 km N

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

7.9 km N · Tyne and Wear

Coast to coast along the Roman frontier, milecastle by milecastle.

8 km W · Northumberland, Cumbria & Tyne and Wear

Hylton Castle: a medieval fortified house, chapel, 17th and 18th century country houses and associated gardens

3.1 km SW

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

3.5 km E · spans 24 counties

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham.

3.6 km E

The Wear from mouth to moor — Roker pier to Cowshill, passing beneath Durham Cathedral on the way up the dale.

3.8 km S · County Durham & Tyne and Wear

Bar and eating house half-cut into the sea cliff at Marsden Bay, reached by cliff lift or steps.

4.4 km NE

Surviving church of the Anglo-Saxon monastery where the Venerable Bede wrote, keeping its dedication stone of 685.

5 km NW

A country park in Tyne and Wear.

7.4 km S

A National Trust place in Tyne and Wear.

7.9 km SW