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| Ford Estate | |
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 Ford Post Office | |
  Ford Estate Location withinTyne and Wear | |
| Metropolitan borough | |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SUNDERLAND |
| Postcode district | SR4 |
| Dialling code | 0191 |
| Police | Northumbria |
| Fire | Tyne and Wear |
| Ambulance | North East |
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Ford Estate (known asFord locally) is a suburb in the south ofSunderland, in the county ofTyne and Wear, England. The suburb is divided into two areas: High Ford borders the estate ofPennywell. Low Ford, to the east, borders the suburb ofPallion.[1] Much like the neighbouring estate of Pennywell, Ford Estate is currently undergoing large levels ofurban regeneration with private housing now standing in the place of the homes people were forcibly evicted from.[citation needed]
At the heart of the area once stood Ford Hall (after which the area is named), the childhood home ofGeneral Havelock,[2] and a road is named after him near the site as well as a few public houses outside the suburb. The house was demolished in the middle of the twentieth century and was rebuilt as aretirement home.
Most of the houses in Ford Estate were built in the 1930s and 1940s,[1] and most of the street names begin with the letter F, and also contain the word ford in them, examples of this are Falmouth Road, Fordham Road, Fordfield Road and Falkland Road.
Residents also have access to the nearbyPallion Metro Station which is located inPallion.
Ford was formerly atownship andchapelry in the parish ofBishop-Wearmouth,[3] in 1866 Ford became a separatecivil parish,[4] on 1 April 1967 the parish was abolished and merged with Sunderland andHoughton-le-Spring.[5] In 1961 the parish had a population of 3071.[6]
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