Grindon is a residential suburb of [[Sunderland]], Tyne and Wear, England, approximately three miles (5 km) west of Sunderland city centre. Although most of the present neighbourhood consists of twentieth-century housing, Grindon is an old place-name: documentary evidence identifies a medieval settlement there by 1323, when it belonged to the territorial lordship of the [[Barons … Read more
The Dolphin is a public house on Ashdown Road in [[Farringdon, Sunderland|Farringdon]], Sunderland, Tyne and Wear. It opened in 1960, shortly after the principal construction of Farringdon’s municipal housing estate, and was built as one of the neighbourhood facilities serving the new suburb. The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) describes it as a pub in … Read more
Thorney Close is a residential suburb and former municipal housing estate in south-west [[Sunderland]], Tyne and Wear, England. The present neighbourhood was principally constructed by Sunderland Corporation between 1947 and 1950 on the former Thorney Close and Hasting Hill farms. Comprising about 2,100 dwellings in its original post-war development, it was the first large peripheral … Read more
Farringdon is a residential suburb of [[Sunderland]], Tyne and Wear, England, approximately three miles (5 km) south of the city centre. Although the present neighbourhood is principally a Sunderland Corporation housing estate built between 1952 and 1957, the name is much older: medieval Farringdon was a grange belonging to [[Hexham Priory]], situated within the territory … Read more