Barnes, Sunderland

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Barnes is a suburb of Sunderland, situated about a mile west of the city centre. The area is split into Low Barnes (a name rarely used) and the more affluent High Barnes, near to Barnes Park and the Bede Centre of City of Sunderland College.

Barnes Park was laid out in the late nineteenth an early twentieth centuries. Taken together with its post war extensions which run to the former county borough boundary, it is the largest park in the city