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Rickleton
Rickleton is an area of Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the south side of Washington.
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Vigo railway station (England)
Vigo railway station served the Barley Mow and Vigo areas of the town of Birtley in Tyne and Wear (historically County Durham) in England. The station, on the Stanhope and Tyne Railway, was opened in 1835 and closed in 1853. It reopened in 1862 and closed for the final time in 1869.
The line remained open to passengers until 1955 and to freight until the 1980s. The site of the station has since been demolished and the trackbed now forms part of the Consett and Sunderland Railway Path between Washington and Chester-le-Street following the course of the old railway line.
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Fatfield
Fatfield is an area of Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.
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Harraton
Harraton is a suburb of Washington, in the Sunderland metropolitan borough, in Tyne and Wear, England. Harraton is near the River Wear and is 3 miles north-east of Chester-le-Street, 2 miles south-west of Washington town centre and 9 miles south-southwest of Sunderland.
When nearby Washington (historically a village) was founded as a new town under the New Towns Act in 1964, Harraton alongside the neighboring villages of Chaters-Hough, Fatfield, Cox Green and Picktree became suburbs of Washington forming the southern suburbs of the town. Certain developments also took place for overspill for the nearby towns of Chester Le Street and Houghton-le-Spring (also in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough). It is on the main road serving Seahouses and the northern coast. Harraton was a civil parish until 1974.
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Lambton, Tyne and Wear
Lambton is an area of Washington, in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It lies about 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Chester-le-Street. It is historically part of County Durham. It is linked to the Lambton family, Lambton Castle, and is the legendary home of the Lambton Worm.
New Lambton is located just a few miles from the Lambton estate.