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• Managing Organisation:

  City of Sunderland

• Contact:

  Ian Coburn

• Telephone:

  0191 2193941 
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Information about this open space

Herrington Country Park stands as a testimony to the determination and resilience of a coal mining community which was completely downcast following the loss of it’s colliery in 1985.  It, together with the associated Works provided jobs for the majority of the Community and supported an array of service businesses in turn.  The loss was devastating and yet out of the devastation was borne a Park which, in November 2003, won the British Association for Landscape Industries Premier Award, for Landscape Design and Management.  Has been the subject of a major BBC documentary celebrating the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in terms of the changing English landscape and has been cited as an example of best practice.  The Park has a design quality which is rare and is rapidly gaining a sense of ownership with the Community, and is winning respect across the Region.  It has been identified in the Great North Forest Plan as a Gateway Site, a major link between the Community and the countryside offering people a taste of the countryside and hopefully assisting them to develop the confidence and skills to take them into the broader landscape.