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Watching and Waiting Sculpture – St Peter's Church loop from Park Lane

Watching and Waiting Sculpture – St Peter's Church loop from Park Lane

Easy

5.0

(3)

115

riders

Watching and Waiting Sculpture – St Peter's Church loop from Park Lane

01:17

27.9km

170m

Road cycling

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 8, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 17.5 km for 56 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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4.09 km

Pathways of Knowledge Sculpture

Highlight • Structure

Try taking a web cam screen shot using the live camera link below,.

sunderland.gov.uk/article/15667/Riverside-webcam

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4.75 km

Watching and Waiting Sculpture

Highlight • Viewpoint

The Red House’ is an ‘exploded’ house carved from stone, with fragments of it along the trail.
Chaz Brenchley wrote an accompanying story, ‘Murder at the Red House’, which you can listen to here:
chazbrenchley.co.uk/redhousera.html
more info below
wp.sunderland.ac.uk/seagullcity/riverside-sculpture-walk

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17.5 km

Marsden Rock and Marsden Grotto

Highlight • Natural Monument

Lovely little cove with a hotel and bar at the bottom of the lift or you can take the stairs down

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21.9 km

Seaburn Promenade Benches with Coastal View

Highlight • Cycleway

A ride I regularly do is the Pier to Pier to Pier, Basically starting at Roker Pier (you can ride to the end of the pier when open) then riding …

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24.7 km

Carved Stone Steps to the River

Highlight • Structure

carved steps going down into the river, (easy missed)

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24.7 km

Taking Flight Sculpture

Highlight • Structure

On the promontory of the marina, ‘Taking Flight’ is a sequence of sculptures which shows the different stages as a cormorant takes off across the Wear.

Craig Knowles’ statue features …

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25.8 km

St Peter's Church

Highlight • Other

St Peters church 674 AD was part of Bede's monastery

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26.5 km

Wearmouth Bridge

Highlight • Monument

A fine double arch bridge over the River Wear in Sunderland. The original bridge here was constructed in 1796, it was updated and repaired in 1805 but this bridge was reconstructed by Robert Stevenson between 1857-1859.

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27.9 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

18.4 km

5.47 km

3.05 km

507 m

481 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

21.4 km

5.75 km

597 m

117 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Thursday 7 May

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Watching and Waiting Sculpture – St Peter's Church loop from Park Lane

Pathways of Knowledge Sculpture

Watching and Waiting Sculpture

Marsden Rock and Marsden Grotto

Seaburn Promenade Benches with Coastal View

Carved Stone Steps to the River

Taking Flight Sculpture

St Peter's Church

Wearmouth Bridge

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