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Southwick, Sunderland — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Southwick is a former village, now a suburb on the north banks of the River Wear in Sunderland, with a green at its middle.
About Southwick
Where to stay in Southwick
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Southwick's own accommodation is thin, and the reason to base here is the green and the Church of Holy Trinity rather than a strip of hotels. The River Wear is the other draw. Anyone booking on this side of the water gets the north bank, the Thompson Memorial a short walk off, and a suburb that was its own place before Sunderland took it in.
About Southwick
What are the main landmarks in Southwick?
Three names stand out in Southwick: the Church of Holy Trinity, the Church of St Columba, and the Thompson Memorial in the centre of the green, with its posts to north and south. The green holds the last of them. Between the two churches and that memorial, a walk around the old village core takes in most of what the suburb kept from the years before Sunderland absorbed it.
What is the history of Southwick?
From 1894 to 1928, Southwick answered to the Southwick-on-Wear Urban District Council, a body of its own for a place that had begun as a village on the north banks of the River Wear. Sunderland absorbed it in 1928. Before any of that the ground lay in County Durham, where the older records put it, and the modern county of Tyne and Wear took over the boundary much later.
Where is Southwick?
The suburb runs along the north banks of the River Wear, inside Sunderland and the county of Tyne and Wear, England.
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Updated September 2026