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3 unusual facts about Whitburn, South Tyneside


Geology of Tyne and Wear

The 'Hebburn Dyke' is another microgabbro which runs ESE from Newcastle-upon-Tyne through Hebburn to the coast at Whitburn.

Sockburn Worm

The tale is said by many to be the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's poem Jabberwocky which he wrote while in Croft on Tees and Whitburn.

Williamson baronets

The family removed to County Durham as a consequence of marriage and from the 18th century the family seat was Whitburn Hall, near Sunderland ( the house was demolished in 1980).


Clan Houston

The family also acquired a substantial barony near Whitburn, West Lothian, where Huston House, which was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, still stands today.

Hebburn Hall

Hebburn Hall also known as Ellison Hall is a 17th-century country mansion, which has been converted into residential apartments and houses, situated at Hebburn, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear.

Rick Parfitt

However, in August 2006, after meeting 46 year old fitness instructor Lyndsay Whitburn, they married in a £40 ceremony in Gibraltar.

Thomas L. Johnston

Thomas Lothian Johnston FRSE (9 March 1927 in Whitburn, West Lothian – 2009 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish economist.

Whitburn, South Tyneside

Not until 1866 was a road built over the sandunes to Fulwell, in northern Sunderland.


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