The earliest reference found to the Hylton Ferry (HER 446) was in 1322 when Baron Hylton granted to his chaplain "the passage of Bovisferry" (an ox
Holy Trinity, attributed to the architect William Etty, was built in 1719 to serve the newly created parish of Sunderland.
St Peter’s church, Monkwearmouth, formed part of the Anglo Saxon monastery founded in c.673 by Benedict Biscop.
Built by William, lord Hylton in the late 14th or early 15th century. The gatehouse, the original core of the medieval castle, still remains.
Rector's Gill provided an overspill burial ground in Bishopwearmouth.
Tunstall, between Ryhope and Silksworth, remained an agricultural hamlet into the 19th century.
Sunderland became a city in 1992, sixty years after the first attempt to gain city status.
There were Jewish inhabitants at an early date, a rabbi and small congregation by the late 18th century, and a greater influx after 1870, of Lithua
The coastal area south of the port of Sunderland, Hendon and its coastline have been much altered over past centuries.
From directories and other sources comes evidence of trades and occupations in the port and surrounding area before 1800.
