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Frenchman's Bay (South Shields)
Frenchman’s Bay is a small bay between South Shields and Marsden Grotto, Tyne and Wear. The O.S. grid reference is NZ392660.
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The Leas
The Leas is a large area of land owned and maintained by the National Trust along the coastal cliffs of South Shields, England.
It is popular with dog walkers, joggers, kite flyers, horse riders, cyclists and other activities. It is the finishing line for the Great North Run which is a half marathon that takes place every year in or around October and the venue for the Great North Dog Walk.
The Leas stretches for around 2 miles and goes as far as Souter Lighthouse on the way to Whitburn.
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Harton Down Hill
Harton Down Hill or Harton Downhill, also known locally as Blackberry Hills, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in the Horsley Hill area of South Shields in the South Tyneside borough in Tyne and Wear, England. This area is protected because of the special combination of plant species that grow on the shallow soil above the Magnesian Limestone rocks here.
The land area designated as Harton Down Hill SSSI is within a larger area along Coast Road that is designated as a Local Nature Reserve called Harton Downhill. This protected area is close to Bramble Court Assisted Housing.
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Horsley Hill
Horsley Hill was a football and rugby league ground and greyhound racing track in South Shields.
1.6 km
MS Oslofjord (1937)
MS Oslofjord was an ocean liner built in 1938 by A/G Weser Shipbuilders, Bremen, Germany, for Norwegian America Line. She was of 18,673 gross register tons and could carry 860 passengers. She would have an uneventful career until 1939 were two separate incidents happened. One from 27 April 1939, where she collided with an American pilot boat, and another where she struck a mine sinking her.