Gilley Law, also known as Lakeside Village, is a residential neighbourhood in south-west [[Sunderland]], Tyne and Wear, England. It lies between [[Farringdon, Sunderland|Farringdon]], [[Silksworth]] and [[Doxford Park]] and is particularly identifiable by a group of seven 17-storey tower blocks completed in 1968. The wider municipal estate was developed principally in 1966–68, although construction of the … Read more
Ford Estate, usually shortened locally to Ford, is a residential suburb of [[Sunderland]], Tyne and Wear, England, about 2.3 miles (3.7 km) west of the city centre. Unlike the large Sunderland estates constructed after the Second World War, Ford was principally an inter-war municipal housing development, begun during the 1930s on formerly agricultural land acquired … Read more
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
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