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- Washington is a town in the City of Sunderland district of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family, from which the first President of the United States George Washington descended. It is located between Chester-le-Street, Gateshead and Sunderland.
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Washington is a town in the City of Sunderland district of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family, from which the first President of the United States George Washington descended. It is located between Chester-le-Street, Gateshead and Sunderland.
Washington village is the home to the wonderful Washington Old Hall that is looked after by the National Trust. It is a place of great significance because it was once the home to the ancestors of George Washington, the first president of the United States.
PREHISTORIC. The skull of an Anthracosaurus, a 12ft. amphibian from 310 million years ago, dug out at Usworth Colliery, 1966. 9600 to 4300 B.C. Middle Stone Age site found at Shaddons Hill in 1925. 4300-to 2000 B.C. New Stone Age axe found at New Washington. Now in Sunderland Museum. 2000 to 750 B.C.
Washington, town in Sunderland metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Durham, northeastern England. It lies along the north side of the River Wear below Chester-le-Street. The site was an area of early coal mining and industrial activity and was associated.
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Washington is a new town in Sunderland, in the northeast of England. Historically it was part of County Durham . It joined a new county in 1974 with the creation of Tyne and Wear .
Discover the surprising links between the history of Washington Old Hall and one of the founding fathers of the United States, George Washington.
Washington is a town in the City of Sunderland local government district of Tyne and Wear, England, and part of historic County Durham. Washington is located geographically at an equal distance from the centres of Newcastle, Durham and Sunderland, hence it has close ties to all three cities.
