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Warden Law

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Warden Law
Warden Law

Warden Law is a village and civil parish in the City of Sunderland in Tyne and Wear, England. It is south-west of Sunderland city centre. It has a population of 33. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100. Details were included in the civil parish of Hetton. It is home to a karting track called Karting North East and the Warden Law Kart Club. Just over the hill is a new children's farm activity centre Down at the Farm The site is also the location of several prehistoric burial sites and other neolithic groundworks and remains. The site was also the location of the Warden Law winding engine from 1822 until 1959 which was used by the Hetton Coal Company railway to power one of the very earliest non animal powered railways seen anywhere in the world.

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B1404, Sunderland

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