A183 road

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The A183 road runs from South Shields in Tyne and Wear, through Sunderland and ends at Chester-le-Street in County Durham. It is a major route in South Tyneside, Sunderland and Chaster-le-Street serving many areas and landmarks along its route.

[edit] South Tyneside section

The road begins in the centre of South Shields, near the Town Hall, as Anderson Street. It becomes Ocean Road, famous locally for its Indian restaurants, and subject to traffic calming measures in recent years. The A183 then becomes Sea Road as it passes between the North and South Marine Parks as well as the Wouldhave Memorial and Sea Hotel. The road then continues along the seafront area of the town passing the fairground, Bents Park and Amphitheatre. The road then turns at Gandhi's Temple and becomes Mowbray Road as it passes Gypsies Green Stadium.

At the New Crown Hotel it becomes the Coast Road once past the junction for the Waters Edge public house, the road continues to Marsden without any turn junctions, passing The Leas on the Coastal side, the finishing point for the Great North Run. The A183 then meets the A1300 at its junction on Redwell Lane and continues as the Coast Road. Nest the road passes the famous Marsden Rock and Marsden Grotto on Marsden Beach. The A183 then continues at the Coast Road until it reaches Souter Lighthouse.

The road now becomes Mill Lane as it passes through Whitburn Colliery, the road becomein East Street as it passes through Whitburn Village itself. After passing Cornthwaite Park the A183 becomes Whitburn Bents Road and enters Sunderland.

[edit] Sunderland section

Once through Whitburn, the road enters Sunderland. It runs along the sea-front, as Whitburn Road, passing the beaches of Seaburn (home of the annual Sunderland International Airshow which attracts 1.2 million visitors) and Roker.

It then winds alongside the river Wear, as Dame Dorothy Street, where it passes the National Glass Centre, the St. Peter's campus of the University of Sunderland, the seventh century St. Peter's Church, before crossing the river into the city centre at the Wearmouth Bridge - which it shares with the A1018 road. It loops around the north-western edge of the city centre as St. Mary's Way, Livingstone Road and St. Michael's Way, where it passes Sunderland Minster, before becoming Chester Road.

As Chester Road it runs past the city campus of the University, and through a commerical section before reaching the Sunderland Royal Hospital. It runs alongside the city's main cemetery toward the Grindon estate. It is here that it becomes a dual carriageway - running past the Pennywell and Hastings Hill estates, past the Sunderland Echo office to the A19 fly-over.

Past the A19 the road runs past the Herrington Country Park and the Penshaw Monument, through Penshaw, before reaching a large roundabout at Shiney Row with the A182.

[edit] County Durham section

The road becomes single carriageway once more, and passes out of Sunderland through Bournmoor. It runs downhill alongside the river Wear, close to Lumley Castle. This stretch is called New Bridge Bank, and the road crosses over the New Bridge, one of the earliest crossings over the river Wear. The road ends at the A1 junction - the Blind Lane leads to Beamish and the Shields Road leads into Chester-le-Street.

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