Southwick, Sunderland
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| Population | 8,700 |
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| Metropolitan borough | City of Sunderland |
| Metropolitan county | Tyne and Wear |
| Region | North East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SUNDERLAND |
| Postcode district | SR5 |
| Police | Northumbria |
| Fire | Tyne and Wear |
| Ambulance | North East |
| UK Parliament | Sunderland North |
| European Parliament | North East England |
| List of places: UK • England • Tyne and Wear | |
Southwick, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear is a suburb on the north banks of the river Wear in Sunderland.
Southwick borders with Castletown to the west, Monkwearmouth to the east, greenbelt farmland to the north, and the Wear to the south although the Queen Alexandra Bridge links Soutwick to Pallion.
It is home to main police station that services the north of Sunderland. Southwick has a primary school, but no secondary school.
Southwick is centered around The Green, a commerical area containing three listed buildings; a World War II war memorial, The Tramcar Inn a a public house built in 1906, and a memorial lamp-post built in 1912. [1]
According to Indicies of Deprivation published by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 2000, Southwick is the most deprived of the 25 wards in Sunderland, the fifth most deprived in Tyne and Wear, and the fifty-fifth in England. [2]
[edit] Etymology
Southwick in Sunderland has a different origin to other places called Southwick: the name is of Scandinavian origin: and means "clearing by a marsh", from Old Norse sogr "moss, marsh, swamp (cf. modern "soggy")" and þveit/thveit "thwaite, clearing". The name was recorded as Suvveite in 1189.
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