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Sunderland

Sunderland

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Sunderland city (1991 pop. 195,064) and metropolitan district, NE England, at the mouth of the Wear River. The city was established as a shipbuilding center and a coal-shipping port in the 14th cent; shipbuilding ended in the 1980s, and coal mining in the 1990s. Sunderland exports metals and manufactured goods and imports raw materials. Engineering is an important industry; manufactures include aircraft components, electrical goods, glass, clothes, chemicals, and pottery.

A Benedictine abbey, at which Bede studied, was founded there in 674. It was destroyed by the Danes, and its remains are incorporated in the Church of St. Peter. Educational and cultural facilities include Sunderland Polytechnic College, Sunderland College for teacher training, and several art museums; the National Glass Centre is in a former shipyard. The district includes the seaside resorts of Roker and Seaburn and the new town of Washington.

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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Sunderland, Canada, UK, USA UK (Tyne and Wear/England): ‘Separate Estate’ from the Old English sundor ‘sundered’, that is, ‘separate’ or ‘apart’, and land in the sense of ‘land that is separate from the main estate’. Here it refers to a part of Monkwearmouth that was separated from the monastery by the River Wear.
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A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Sunderland, usually ‘detached estate’, OE sundor-land: Sunderland Cumbria. Sonderland 1278. Sunderland Sundld. Sunderland c.1168.

However the following has a different origin: Sunderland, North Northum. Sutherlannland 12th cent. ‘Southern cultivated land’. OE sūtherra + land.
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World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

Sunderland County district at the mouth of the River Wear, se Tyne and Wear, ne England. Once renowned for coal-mining and the biggest shipbuilding centre in the world, industries now include chemicals, vehicles, glass, electronics, and furniture. Pop. (1997) 290,700.
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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

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