H3O Beach Saunas, Sunderland Yacht Club

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

0.7 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.

5.8 km N

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

6.7 km N

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

6.8 km N

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

8 km W

Greek-temple folly on a prominent hill.

8.4 km SW