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Washington is a town in the district of Tyne and Wear, England. Historically part of County Durham, it is the ancestral settlement of the local Washington family, from which the first President of the United States George Washington descended. It is located between Chester-le-Street, Gateshead and South Tyneside.
Type: Town with 53,500 residents. Description: town in the City of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Categories: unparished area and locality. Location: Sunderland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap.
County Durham is a county in North East England with a population of 510,800. Mapcarta, the open map.
William became the first member of the family that ultimately gave its name to the capital city of the USA. So Washington, District of Columbia (DC) acquired its name from Washington in County Durham (CD), though today Washington is now part of the City of Sunderland. Gateway, Washington Old Hall © David Simpson.
Washington County Durham. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Washington like this: WASHINGTON, a village, a township, and a parish, in Chester-le-Street district, Durham.
Washington lies roughly one mile north-east of the Durham border, and was historically in the county of Durham. Washington falls within the metropolitan district council of Sunderland. It is in the NE38 postcode district.
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Washington is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It was a small mining village but from 1964 became the core of a planned New Town, with a population of over 67,000 in 2011. It was part of County Durham until 1974 when the metropolis of Tyne and Wear was created.
