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Northern Spire Bridge – View of Roker Lighthouse loop from Chester-le-Street

Northern Spire Bridge – View of Roker Lighthouse loop from Chester-le-Street

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Northern Spire Bridge – View of Roker Lighthouse loop from Chester-le-Street

03:21

47.7km

400m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 5, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 21.0 km for 68 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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10.6 km

North Wood

Forest

17.1 km

Northern Spire Bridge

Highlight • Cycleway

Sunderland's best feature.. as much as I like this bridge the 118 million would have been much better invested in the city centre. It is located about 2.5 mile west of the Wearmouth bridge on National Cycle Route 7.

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19.9 km

Men of Steel Sculptures

Highlight • Monument

lovely artwork however difficult to spot as hidden by lots of overgrown bushes.

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21.2 km

Sunderland Riverside Sculpture Trail

Highlight • Trail

WATCH OUT broken glass, its popular bottle smashing place, even the seagulls have learned to drop and smash mussels on the path, leaving sharp splinters for your tires to find.

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22.1 km

Wearmouth Bridge

Highlight • Monument

A fine double arch bridge over the River Wear in Sunderland. The original bridge here was constructed in 1796, it was updated and repaired in 1805 but this bridge was reconstructed by Robert Stevenson between 1857-1859.

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22.7 km

Pathways of Knowledge Sculpture

Highlight • Structure

Try taking a web cam screen shot using the live camera link below,.

sunderland.gov.uk/article/15667/Riverside-webcam

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23.3 km

Watching and Waiting Sculpture

Highlight • Viewpoint

The Red House’ is an ‘exploded’ house carved from stone, with fragments of it along the trail.
Chaz Brenchley wrote an accompanying story, ‘Murder at the Red House’, which you can listen to here:
chazbrenchley.co.uk/redhousera.html
more info below
wp.sunderland.ac.uk/seagullcity/riverside-sculpture-walk

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23.9 km

Taking Flight Sculpture

Highlight • Structure

On the promontory of the marina, ‘Taking Flight’ is a sequence of sculptures which shows the different stages as a cormorant takes off across the Wear.

Craig Knowles’ statue features …

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25.0 km

Beach

25.8 km

View of Roker Lighthouse

Highlight • Beach

so much to see, lots of artwork if you look

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29.5 km

Cornhill Dock

Ruins

47.7 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

33.6 km

5.41 km

5.15 km

1.97 km

1.33 km

264 m

Surfaces

23.8 km

16.9 km

4.97 km

1.06 km

1.04 km

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Northern Spire Bridge – View of Roker Lighthouse loop from Chester-le-Street

Northern Spire Bridge

Men of Steel Sculptures

Sunderland Riverside Sculpture Trail

Wearmouth Bridge

Pathways of Knowledge Sculpture

Watching and Waiting Sculpture

Taking Flight Sculpture

View of Roker Lighthouse

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