Shiney Row

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Shiney Row

Coordinates: 54.867120° N 1.495132° W

Shiney Row (Tyne and Wear)
Shiney Row
Shiney Row shown within Tyne and Wear
Metropolitan borough City of Sunderland
Metropolitan county Tyne and Wear
Region North East
Constituent country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Postcode district DH4
Dial code 0191
Police Northumbria
Fire Tyne and Wear
Ambulance North East
UK Parliament Houghton and Washington East
European Parliament North East England
List of places: UKEnglandTyne and Wear

Shiney Row is a suburb in Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear. With good travel links with the rest of Sunderland, City of Sunderland College also has one of its main centres located in Shiney Row.

The area includes Biddick Hall, Lambton Castle and Lambton Park, the ancestral home of the Earls of Durham including Antony Claud Frederick Lambton, the former 6th Earl of Durham and known before 1970 as Viscount Lambton and subsequently as Lord Lambton in a 1973 Parliamentary Scandal .