Places to explore near Seaburn StationSeaburn

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

2.4 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.

4.8 km N

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

5.4 km N

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

5.5 km N

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

7.1 km SW

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

7.8 km SW

Sea-glass beach and the 'Tommy' war statue.

9.6 km S

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

1.2 km E · spans 24 counties

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham.

1.3 km E

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

1.8 km S · County Durham & Tyne and Wear

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

3.6 km W

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

5.3 km N

A country park in Tyne and Wear.

6.8 km SW

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

7.9 km NW

A National Trust place in Tyne and Wear.

8.8 km W