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Local Information for Sunderland

Sunderland is an industrial city and port in the English metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear.

Before 1974 it was a county borough and municipal corporation in the traditional county of Durham, North East England. The old county borough has a population of approximately 200,000. The population of the City of Sunderland is 281,000, making it the most populous British city between Leeds and Edinburgh. Politically, it is renowned as a stronghold of the ruling Labour Party.

The City of Sunderland is a metropolitan borough which was created in 1974, and since 1992 has had city status. Somewhat confusingly, the city contains the town of Sunderland, and also the neighboring towns of Washington, Hetton-le-Hole and Houghton-le-Spring. For the purposes of this article "Sunderland" refers to the town of Sunderland as to distinguish it from the city.

Before 1974 the town of Sunderland was a county borough in its own right. In that year it was merged with several surround...More