Penshaw Monument

The Penshaw Landmark legitimately The Earl of Durham's Landmark, is a lack of caution worked in 1844 on Penshaw Slope between the areas of Washington and Houghton-le-Spring, inside the City of Sunderland, North East Britain.

It is dedicated to John George Lambton 1792– 1840, first Earl of Durham and the vital Legislative pioneer of the Region of Canada and warmly known as Radical Jack.

The landmark remains on Penshaw Slope, the name of which is gotten from a blend of Celtic and Old English Saxon words.

A pen is a Brythonic or Cumbric word for slope, as in the name Penrith; shaw is gotten from sceaga signifying "lush territory"; lastly the Old/Center/Present day English word "slope". The name in this way signifies "lush slope".