Philadelphia, Tyne and Wear
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Philadelphia | |
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Philadelphia Spiritualist Church, Chapel Row | |
Location within Tyne and Wear | |
OS grid reference | NZ333522 |
Metropolitan borough | |
Metropolitan county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | HOUGHTON LE SPRING |
Postcode district | DH4 |
Dialling code | 0191 |
Police | Northumbria |
Fire | Tyne and Wear |
Ambulance | North East |
UK Parliament | |
Philadelphia is a village in the City of Sunderland, England.[1] It lies on the A182 road between Newbottle and Shiney Row.
History
Unlike nearby Washington, it post-dates its namesake in the United States, being named during the American Revolutionary War by a local colliery owner to commemorate the British capture of the city. The village cricket field is named "Bunker Hill", after another famous battle in that war.
Philadelphia was the place of the 1815 Philadelphia train accident, the explosion of the boiler of an early steam locomotive. The number of deaths (16, other sources state 13) was the highest in a railway accident until 1842.
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