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City of Sunderland: 8 facts

  1. With a population of 300,000, Sunderland is the largest city between Edinburgh and Leeds

  2. Sunderland has the only Olympic-sized swimming pool in the North-East

  3. Sunderland is home to the UK's longest stretch of city-side beach

  4. Lewis Carroll wrote his famous poem Jabberwocky while staying in Sunderland.

  5. Sunderland is the 13th most sustainable city in the UK, according to the 2009 Sustainable Cities Index

  6. The oldest existing Latin version of the Bible - the Codex Amiantinus - was written at St Peter's Church, next to our riverside campus

  7. The UK's highest indoor climbing wall is in Sunderland

  8. The Sunderland International Airshow is the biggest free event of its kind in Northern Europe, attracting more than one million visitors every year
 

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