Hastings Hill is a suburb

Suburb

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 of Sunderland

City of Sunderland

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, Tyne and Wear

Tyne and Wear

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Hastings Hill is a housing estate

Housing estate

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, close to the A19

A19 road

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, and the Pennywell

Pennywell

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 and Grindon

Grindon, Sunderland

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 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.