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

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

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

01:15

26.5km

160m

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 19, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that go up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 21 m for 26 m

After 26.5 km for 26 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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1.82 km

William Mills Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

William Mills, inventor of hand grenade, also known as Mills bomb.

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3.84 km

Sunderland Riverside Sculpture Trail

Highlight • Trail

WATCH OUT broken glass, its popular bottle smashing place, even the seagulls have learned to drop and smash mussels on the path, leaving sharp splinters for your tires to find.

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4.48 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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5.14 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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5.74 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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8.61 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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24.1 km

St Peter's Church

Highlight • Other

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

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24.8 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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26.5 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

10.9 km

10.4 km

3.36 km

1.66 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

17.8 km

7.75 km

669 m

247 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 9 July

25°C

13°C

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

William Mills Bridge

Sunderland Riverside Sculpture Trail

Pathways of Knowledge Sculpture

Watching and Waiting Sculpture

Taking Flight Sculpture

Seaburn Promenade Benches with Coastal View

St Peter's Church

Wearmouth Bridge

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