Springwell Village, Sunderland
Springwell village is a village located in Tyneside and lies in Washington west from the city of Sunderland. It has a church, two shops and a local pub.
It is mainly bordered by farmland although there is a local museum called the Bowes Railway Museum, which was built in 1926 by George Stephenson and is the worlds only Standard Gauge Cable Railway, It was originally designed and built to move coal from the Durham pits to boats on the River Wear.
The footballer Paul Thirlwell also came from Springwell, who was an under 21 England international.