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Coordinates: 54.90°N 1.52°W. 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.
Washington. Type: Town with 53,500 residents. Description: town in the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Categories: unparished area and locality. Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude.
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- Washington Old Hall. This manor house with roots going back to the 12th century was the ancestral home of the first president of the United States, George Washington.
- Penshaw Monument. Commanding the landscape for miles, the Penshaw Monument is a Neoclassical gritstone folly at the top of a 136-metre hill. Designed like a Doric tetrastyle temple, the monument was raised in the 1840s in honour of John George Lambton (1792-1840), the first governor of the Province of Canada.
- North East Land, Sea and Air Museums. The largest collection of aircraft in the region is on show at the site of the former airbase, RAF Usworth. Most of the exhibits are from the UK’s post-war aviation boom, and include a Gloster Meteor, an English Electric Lightning, a Hawker Hunter, and maybe most important of all, an Avro Vulcan.
- WWT Washington Wetland Centre. At this Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust attraction you can observe a wealth of visiting birds, as well as a collection of exotic species kept in habitats.
There were two further riverside communities in the Washington area to the north east, beyond the Victoria Bridge viaduct. These were Cox Green on the south side of the river and Washington Staithes on the opposite bank. Both places had shipyards in the 1850s and there was quarrying on the Cox Green side.
Where is Washington? Washington is located in the county of Tyne & Wear, North East England, three miles north-east of the town of Chester-le-Street, five miles south-east of the major town of Gateshead, 98 miles south-east of Edinburgh, and 241 miles north of London.
