Shiney Row
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Shiney Row | |
Shiney Row shown within Tyne and Wear |
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Metropolitan borough | City of Sunderland |
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Metropolitan county | Tyne and Wear |
Region | North East |
Constituent country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Postcode district | DH4 |
Dial code | 0191 |
Police | Northumbria |
Fire | Tyne and Wear |
Ambulance | North East |
UK Parliament | Houghton and Washington East |
European Parliament | North East England |
List of places: UK • England • Tyne and Wear |
Shiney Row is a suburb in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear. With good travel links with the rest of Sunderland, City of Sunderland College also has one of its main centres located in Shiney Row.
The area includes Biddick Hall, Lambton Castle and Lambton Park, the ancestral home of the Earls of Durham including Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, the former 6th Earl of Durham and known before 1970 as Viscount Lambton and subsequently as Lord Lambton in a 1973 Parliamentary Scandal .