Sunderland
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Sunderland is a city and borough in Tyne and Wear, in North East England. Sunderland has a population of 284,000 and it is based on and next to the mouth of the River Wear, leading into the North Sea. It is perhaps famous for being home to the football club Sunderland A.F.C. a premier league team which it has housed since 1879.
Sunderland is the largest city between Leeds and Edinburgh in terms of population. It hosts a proud industrial heritage, history. Sunderland was originally the home of the Venerable Bede who was the father of English History and father of the settlement itself with the Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory being built in 686. The city of Sunderland is also the ancestral home of the founder of the United States George Washington, hence why it is now a sister city of Washington D.C. It is also twinned with Essen in Germany and Saint-Nazaire in France.
Sunderland was originally a large town until 1992 when it was granted its status as a city. Sunderland was once "the largest shipbuilding town in the world" at the point of the 1930's-1960's, but the economy of England has since changed and these have industries declined. As a result sunderland became seriously deprived throughout the 70's, 80's and 90's, though strong and continuing rengeration has recently brought the city into a new light. Making it's economy far stronger than what it was at the height of the old city industry.
Some of the famous landmarks in Sunderland include the 49,000 seater Stadium of Light, the massive Echo 24 facilities, the Nissan UK carplant, Penshaw monument, Sunderland Aquatic centre, The Bridges. Hylton Castle, Fulwell Windmill and the unique National glass center.
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