Doxford Park

Coordinates: 54°51′42″N 1°25′22″W / 54.8618°N 1.4227°W / 54.8618; -1.4227

Doxford Park
Boarded up, flat-roofed houses in Doxford Park
Doxford Park  Doxford Park shown within Tyne and Wear
Population	8,700
OS grid reference	NZ375525
Metropolitan borough	City of Sunderland
Metropolitan county	Tyne and Wear
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SUNDERLAND
Postcode district	SR2, SR3
Dialling code	0191
Police	Northumbria
Fire	Tyne and Wear
Ambulance	North East
EU Parliament	North East England
UK Parliament	Sunderland South
List of places: UK • England • Tyne and Wear

Doxford Park (known locally as Doxy Park) is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, located to the south-west of the city centre.

Doxford Park is also the name of a wooded area of land located within the suburb.

Doxford Park has been built up in stages from the mid 1960s onwards, original proposals calling the area "Silksworth Township". It is surrounded by the A19 to the west, farmland to the south, Silksworth to the North, and Tunstall to the east. It is bisected by the B1286 Doxford Park Way dual carriageway.

Many of the houses in Doxford Park were becoming unsafe and uneconomic to repair so Gentoo (formerly the Sunderland Housing Group) is undertaking a massive programme of renewal to redevelop the estate, which will be called 'Beckwith Grange', and has completed Phases 1 & 2 of the project (with 4 phases left to complete).

At the centre of the suburb lies a shopping centre built in the late 1970s and initially named the President Carter Shopping Centre, after it was opened by U.S. President Jimmy Carter during an official visit to the region in 1977. Following redevelopment in mid 1990s the centre is now a large Morrisons supermarket.

Doxford Park is home to one school Mill Hill Primary School and an adjoining nursery [Mill Hill Nursery]. The Portland School for children with special needs was opened in the nearby Chapelgarth area in December 2001 by Prime Minister Tony Blair. For secondary education, most children from the area go to Farringdon Community Sports College in the nearby estate of Farringdon.

The Doxford International Business Park is located less than a mile away from the estate.

See also

• Doxford House

External links

• Venerable Bede School
• Benedict Biscop CofE School