Five miles west of Sunderland, the River Wear keeps to the south of the New Town of WASHINGTON , focus of much of the area's contemporary investment and manufacture. Split into planned, numbered districts, and organized on American lines, it's not an obvious stop, although the original Old Village has been zealously preserved as a conservation area. Just off the village green, past the leafy churchyard on The Avenue, stands the ancestral home of the family wh... [More]