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	Sunderland information - Search.com
		Sunderland is a city and port in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
		Sunderland forms part of the larger City of Sunderland which also includes the neighbouring towns of Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring and is the largest city, by measures of population and area, between Leeds and Edinburgh.
		The urban area of Sunderland was recorded in the 2001 census as 177,739, whilst the population of the larger City of Sunderland was 282,700.
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	Sunderland
		The parliamentary borough of Sunderland comprehends the parish of Sunderland ; the townships of Bishop Wearmouth and Bishop Wearmouth Pans, on the south side of the river Wear, in Easington ward ; and the townships of Monk Wearmouth, Monk Wearmouth Shore, and Southwick, on the north side of the river, in Chester ward.
		The parish of Sunderland, which was formed in 1719 by detaching a part of Bishop Wearmouth, occupies the point of land at the south side of the mouth of the Wear, and, with the exception of the town-moor or common of 70 acres, is covered with houses, all of them of considerable age.
		Monk Wearmouth is in the rural deanery of Chester ; Sunderland and Bishop Wearmouth in the rural deanery of Easington : all are in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham.
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	Sunderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sunderland is a city and port in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
		Sunderland forms part of the larger City of Sunderland which also includes the neighbouring towns of Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring and is the largest city, by measures of population and area, between Leeds and Edinburgh.
		The urban area of Sunderland was recorded in the 2001 census as 177,739, whilst the population of the larger City of Sunderland was 282,700.
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	City of Sunderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The City of Sunderland is in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
		The metropolitan borough was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of several districts of County Durham - Washington Urban District, Houghton-le-Spring Urban District and Hetton Urban District - with the County Borough of Sunderland.
		The metropolitan borough was granted city status in 1992, the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession.
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	Sunderland Information
		Sunderland is a city and port in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
		Sunderland forms part of the larger City of Sunderland which also includes the neighbouring towns of Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring and is the largest city, by measures of population and area, between Leeds and Edinburgh.
		The urban area of Sunderland was recorded in the 2001 census as 177,739, whilst the population of the larger City of Sunderland was 282,700.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/City of Sunderland
		The City of Sunderland is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
		The metropolitan borough was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 by the merger of several districts of County Durham - Washington Urban District, Houghton-le-Spring Urban District and Hetton Urban District - with the County Borough of Sunderland.
		The metropolitan borough was granted city status in 1992, the 40th anniversary of the Queen's accession.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Coat of arms of Sunderland
		Sunderland assumed a heraldic device in the nineteenth century.
		In 1974, on the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Sunderland, the arms were regranted with amendments, and in 1992 when Sunderland was created a City an entirely new grant of arms was made, the main charges being quite unlike any previous grant.
		Although the grant of 1974 was made to the Council of the Borough of Sunderland and its successors regardless of their names, elevation to city status in 1992 was celebrated with a new grant of arms, which city officials requested had "not as much white" as previous arms.
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		'''Sunderland''' is an industrial city and port in the English metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear.
		A person born in Sunderland is sometimes called a Mackem, derived from the term "Mak'em and Tak'em" used by Tyneside shipbuilders to describe their counterparts on the River Wear in Sunderland when ship building was still present in the area.
		Sunderland thus sided with Parliament during the civil war and was a barrack town for Scottish mercenaries leading the siege of the Royalist Newcastle which fell in 1644.
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		Sunderland borough or township, created a parish in its own right only in 1719, had by this time far outgrown the much older parishes of Bishopwearmouth, out of which it had been carved, and Monkwearmouth, on the north bank of the Wear.
		As to the Sunderland coal, it is observed to burn slowly, to have much pyrites with it, and that it turns to a heavy reddish cinder, which appears, by the loadstone, to be iron ore.
		Monk Wearmouth is opposite Sunderland, on the north side of the Wear; it had its name from being the residence of monks, so early as the year 674, and from being near the mouth of the Wear.
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	Sunderland - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Sunderland, Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of (1674-1722), English statesman, son of the 2nd Earl of Sunderland.
		He became Lord Spencer on the death of...
		Sunderland, Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of (1640-1702), English statesman, educated at the University of Oxford.
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	Taxi Hire Sunderland, Private Hire Sunderland, Coach Hire Sunderland, Airport Transfers Sunderland, Courier Services ...
		It is a city and port in the City of Sunderland metropolitan borough, in the county of Tyne and Wear in North East England.
		By the year 1500, Sunderland was one of the wealthiest towns in England and to this day it is still the largest city by population between Leeds and Edinburgh.
		Sunderland is an ideal place if one wants to take a short break from the busy schedules and has plenty to offer as leisure activities.
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	Durham Mining Museum - Archives
		Clanny, of Sunderland, presented for the purpose of being preserved in their repository, the original safety lamp, as it is described in the Transactions of the Society of Arts, for 1813, and which first called the attention of philosophers, and of the proprietors of coal mines, to the subject.
		The good people of Sunderland appear in no very favourable light, it seems very clear that the public safety is in their estimation a very secondary object when brought into competition with the sale of coals.
		Clanny presented the Literary Society of Sunderland with portraits of George III, Archdeacon Paley, the Marquis of Londonderry, Baron Cuvier, and the donor himself, the latter being from a painting by Reay, in the Town Hall, presented to the deceased by the medical profession of Sunderland.
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	City of Sunderland
		Sunderland thus sided with Parliament during the civil war and was a barrack town for Scottish mercenaries leading the siege of the Royalist Newcastle which fell in 1644.
		In 1712 the separate parish of Sunderland was carved from the densely populated east end of Bishopwearmouth, to serve the port.
		Demands for democracy and organised town government saw the Borough of Sunderland created in 1836, although impatient citizens elected Andrew White to be Mayor in December 1835.
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	SUNDERLAND - Online Information article about SUNDERLAND
		BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
		Morton incorporated Sunderland in 1634, stating that it had been a borough from time immemorial under the name of the New Borough of Wear-mouth.
		Sunderland became a parliamentary borough returning two members in 1834.
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	Open Directory - Regional:Europe:United Kingdom:England:Tyne and Wear (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Blaydon is a town in the North East of England in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
		Sunderland, situated at the mouth of the river Wear in the county of Tyne and Wear, dates back to around 680 AD when it was land on the south bank of the Wear belonging to the monastery at Monkwearmouth, which was situated on the north bank.
		Sunderland and its port grew in importance with the coal and shipbuilding industries and became a major industrial area in the north east.
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	DNA Bioscience - Sunderland Test for Paternity
		Sunderland itself (named for the part of Monkwearmouth “sundered” from the monastery by the river) was chartered in the late 12th century.
		The port grew rapidly as the coal trade developed in the 17th century, and by the mid-18th century it was a major shipbuilding centre.
		In addition to the town of Sunderland, the city and metropolitan borough includes the towns of Washington, Houghton-le-Spring, and Hetton-le-Hole.
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		Until the beginning of the 19th century law and order in Sunderland had been in the hands of the Watchmen and the Parish Constables, but they became increasingly unable to deal with the growing lawlessness which, combined with squalor disease and poverty, led to the passing of the Municipal Corporation Act of 1835.
		Sunderland had a population of 34,000 and 26 parish constables.
		Sunderland Borough Police continued for 130 years until, in 1967, they were amalgamated with the Durham force.
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	Sunderland City Council
		Sunderland’s name probably derived from the Sunder — land (the land divided by the river) which was granted to Benedict Biscop in AD 686.
		At the same time, the recent location of Nissan in Sunderland was to act as a catalyst for new jobs in the automotive sector, both at the Nissan plant itself and with the firms which supply it.
		In 1992, to mark Her Majesty the Queen ’s 40th year of reign, and in recognition of the way in which Sunderland had dealt with the blows of its industrial decline, and its efforts to reconstruct itself for the future, she graciously accorded Sunderland the status of ‘City’.
	www.sunderland.gov.uk /Public/Editable/Themes/theCity/CityHeritage.asp (461 words)

	Sunderland City Council
		This website is for anyone living, visiting or wanting to invest in Sunderland — a great city by the sea with a balanced way of life that is green, sustainable and smart.
		Sunderland is about to be transformed into a winter wonderland...
		The future image of the Sunderland Empire is on show in the city....
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	JCR-UK - Sunderland Jewish Community (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sunderland, granted city status only in 1992, is an important seaport in the North East of England, lying on both sides of the estuary of the river Wear on the North Sea coast.
		Sunderland became a unitary authority in 1986 when the Tyne and Wear was abolished except for ceremonial purposes.
		Sunderland was the first regional community to be represented on the Board of Deputy of British Jews.
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	HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
		In 1464, Edward IV granted the borough with the passage of the river, and the fisheries to Robert Bertram to which the King provided his lease with a ferry boat.
		Shortly after Charles I was crowned in Edinburgh in 1633 Bishop Morton desirous of encouraging the rising trade of the borough, incorporated the burgesses and inhabitants by the title of Mayor, twelve Alderman and Commonality of the Borough of Sunderland, and granted the privilege of a market and annual fairs.
		Throughout the conflict, the borough of Sunderland remained entirely devoted to parliamentary interest; a circumstance which may be attributed to the commanding influence of the Lilburne family who possessed a far greater share of both property and interest than any other private family within the borough.
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		Between 13th and 30th September, visitors to Sunderland Central Library in Fawcett Street were intrigued by the display, entitled "Back on the Borough Beat: Town and River," which portrayed the bygone days of Sunderland Borough Police and the River Wear Watch.
		Sunderland Borough Police was formed in 1837 and was eventually amalgamated with Durham County Constabulary in 1967; while the River Wear Watch provided policing and fire-fighting services in the Port of Sunderland between 1840 and 1961, when it was disbanded.
		Among the exhibits were examples of police headgear and insignia, a decorated River Wear Police truncheon from the Victorian era and a framed photograph showing the 1925 establishment of the Borough Police, Fire Brigade and River Wear Watch.
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	Sunderland RCA - Partners
		Their firm foundations were laid in Sunderland in 2001, when the City’s tenants voted overwhelmingly to transfer 36,000 homes to Gentoo (then Sunderland Housing Group).
		Gentoo are the 6th largest employer in Sunderland and since 2001 have created 280 jobs and taken on over 120 apprentices via their annual apprentice recruitment drive that attracts over a thousand hopefuls every year.
		Springboard Sunderland Trust is fully committed to the concept of the safe learner, providing and ensuring that its Staff, Visitors, Volunteers and Contractors have a Safe and healthy place in which to work and train.
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	BBC - Wear - Features - Sunderland Empire Theatre celebrates 100 years
		The Sunderland Empire opened to the public on the July 1, 1907.
		Sunderland was heavily bombed during the 2nd World War, but the Empire thrived providing audiences an escape from the austerity of the time.
		Eventually Sunderland Borough Council decided it would be an investment for the town and they put aside £52,000 to buy the theatre.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wear/content/articles/2006/11/13/sunderland_empire_feature.shtml (489 words)

	The City of Sunderland (Electoral Changes) Order 2004
		Sunderland City Council shall make a print of the map marked "Map referred to in the City of Sunderland (Electoral Changes) Order 2004" available for inspection at its offices by any member of the public at any reasonable time.
		The Electoral Registration Officer[10] for the city shall make such rearrangement of, or adaptation of, the register of local government electors as may be necessary for the purposes of, and in consequence of, this Order.
		The Borough of Sunderland (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1980[11] is revoked, save for articles 8 and 9(7).
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	Open Directory - Regional:Europe:United Kingdom:England:Tyne and Wear
		Blaydon is a town in the North East of England in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.
		Sunderland, situated at the mouth of the river Wear in the county of Tyne and Wear, dates back to around 680 AD when it was land on the south bank of the Wear belonging to the monastery at Monkwearmouth, which was situated on the north bank.
		Sunderland and its port grew in importance with the coal and shipbuilding industries and became a major industrial area in the north east.
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	etyres mobile tyres fitting service in Sunderland Tyne & Wear
		Another theory is that the term is meant to be derogatory, in that Sunderland built, on the whole, workaday ships of relatively low tonnage.
		This new county was in turn abolished in 1984, much to popular approval, and Sunderland reverted back to being a borough.
		Sunderland is also victim to a degree of population exodus resulting in an ageing population.
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	alcohol support directory
		The scope of NECA work widened as problems associated with drugs and solvents became prevalent, and to signify the increasingly diverse range of service provision offered it was decided to change the title of the organisation to the North East Council on Addictions.
		Sunderland Carers’ Centre provides confidential advice, support and information to people who care for or are concerned about a family member or friend with a drug or alcohol problem.
		The Coalfield Forum is a registered charitable community group working in the voluntary sector of Sunderland and is made up of local people, workers and organisations.
	www.neraf.org /2onlinedirectory-sunderland.html (400 words)

	GNN - Government News Network
		He noted that the counter-proposals from Sunderland City Council and Mr J Cartwright would result in a constituency with an electorate of 80,901, which would be the largest recommended in England during this review apart from the Isle of Wight.
		The Assistant Commissioner stated a preference for the Commission's inclusion of the North Tyneside Borough ward of Valley in Tynemouth BC instead of in North Tyneside BC, adopting the A19 as the western boundary, which he considered would be a logical and clear boundary.
		Two wards of the Borough of Gateshead:- Pelaw and Heworth, Wardley and Leam Lane; eight wards of the Borough of South Tyneside:- Bede, Boldon Colliery, Cleadon and East Boldon, Fellgate and Hedworth, Hebburn North, Hebburn South, Monkton, Primrose.
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