Hello Patrick, Tunstall Hill are on the South side of Sunderland if you look at multimap.com Tunstall hills are marked at about the third closest zoom otherwise they more or less lie in the curve between Leechmere Road and Tunstall Hope Road - you can park your car in the Precinct if you want to climb the hill at any time! There is a photograph at http://www.ryhope-village.co.uk/gallery.htm There are two hills: Tunstall Hill itself which overlooks the junction of Tunstall Road and Leechmere Road and Rocky hill which is behind it. In fact the 'hills' themselves are just the undeveloped top of a general rise that dominates that part of Sunderland. Tunstall Road rises quite steeply from Queen Alexandra Road to Leechmere Road and has the picturesque local name of Strawberry Bank - though I'm too young ever to have seen strawberries there - only 1930s housing Tunstall Hill itself is a gentle sandstone rise but Rocky Hill has one face that is quite steep and (as the name suggests) quite rocky. To my adult eyes they are no longer very high, but I spent many happy hours as a brave ten year old on the face of Rocky Hill imagining myself on Everest. You get a fine view of the city of Sunderland from Tunstall Hill and with a friend's dad we would sometimes climb there to see the New Year in. The open area around the hill was popular with dog walkers and courting couples and there was (and perhaps still are) quite a number of football (soccer) fields on the edge of the area towards Leechmere Road. It was also a favourite location of teenage boys with nothing to do on a summer afternoon. "Let's gan up Tunna!" would be the cry in a good Sunderland dialect. One last thing. Tunstall Hope Road dips down into a little wooded valley behind Tunstall Hills and there used to be an old derelict house in the valley that we called the haunted house - we didn't believe in such things - but it still gave us a chill. Over the last few years that house has been renovated and developed into what must be one of the nicest residential locations in the city. I returned to Sunderland a couple of weeks ago to see my 'mam' and drove in, as I always do, over Tunstall Hope Road, which isn't the most direct way into the city - but it's MY way in with lots of memories. But it's only in looking at Tunstall Hills on Multimap today that I discovered its real name. Even my kids know that road as the 'haunted house road'. Oh, I forgot to mention. Tunstall was almost certainly a small village which has been swallowed up by the development of Sunderland. Stan will no doubt be able to give more on the objective history of the area - while I wallow in nostalgia. Have you noticed that nostalgia isn't what it used to be? Eddie