Places to explore near St Peters StationSt Peters

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

2.3 km NE

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

6.6 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.

6.7 km N

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

6.9 km SW

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

7.4 km N

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

7.5 km N

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

7.7 km S

Ray Lonsdale's weathered-steel First World War soldier sitting on Seaham seafront, head bowed.

8.6 km SE

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

0.1 km SE · spans 24 counties

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

0.2 km S · County Durham & Tyne and Wear

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham.

2.3 km NE

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

3.9 km W

A country park in Tyne and Wear.

5.6 km SW

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

7.3 km N

Contemporary inn near Seaham, a comfortable stop for the Durham coast.

7.5 km S

One of England’s oldest churches, its Saxon nave surviving at Old Seaham, a little north of the harbour town.

7.6 km S