Hastings Hill Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Hastings Hill
Coordinates:54.888°N -1.452°W
Metropolitan Borough:City of Sunderland
Metropolitan County:Tyne and Wear
Region:North East England
Constituency Westminster:Sunderland South
Post Town:SUNDERLAND
Postcode Area:SR
Postcode District:SR4
Dial Code:0191
Os Grid Reference:NZ350549

Hastings Hill is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.

Hastings Hill is a housing estate, close to the A19, and the Pennywell and Grindon areas of Sunderland. It was built as a private development in the late 1960s on an area of land between the county borough boundary and the surrounding post war council-built estates. The estate stands close to Hasting Hill, where a burial ground used by prehistoric man in about 2,000BC was excavated in 1911. Several cists were discovered during the excavation, with one containing the remains of a man, a flint knife and an earthenware food vessel.