New Mini Golf course at Sunderland Bowl

Sunderland Bowl will soon have a new Mini Golf course.

A new indoor Mini Golf course is opening at Sunderland Bowl in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear this month.

Visit the Sunderland Bowl website for more information.

Galaxy Quest Mini Golf in Sunderland

There's a new Galaxy Quest Mini Golf course in Sunderland.

Galaxy Quest Mini Golf is now open at Laser Quest in Sunderland.

Galaxy Quest Mini Golf in Sunderland is the sister venue of the Galaxy Quest Mini Golf courses at Laser Quest Coventry and Laser Quest Derby.

Visit the Galaxy Quest Mini Golf website for more information.

It's another new course for us to play on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour on a return visit to Sunderland.

Mini Golf at Sunderland Bowl

A new miniature golf course is opening at Sunderland Bowl.

The Sunderland Bowl tenpin bowling centre is opening a new indoor minigolf course.

As well as tenpin bowling and minigolf there will also be darts and shuffleboard at the venue.

Visit the Sunderland Bowl website for more information.

The layout will be another new course for us to visit on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour.

Tenpin bowling and miniature golf

With the boom in the popularity of minigolf and the growth in new courses, a number of tenpin bowling centres have added minigolf, crazy golf and adventure golf courses.

Traditionally the two leisure activities have been quite separate and distinct, with people choosing to do either one or other and most operators running either a minigolf course or tenpin bowling centre.

We're fans of both games and we've been to quite a few places on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour that have both entertainment options.

St Mark's Community Association Crazy Golf course in Sunderland

A look at the Crazy Golf course at St Mark's Community Association in Sunderland.

While in the North East during a road-trip to Scotland in April 2012 we swung by St Mark's Community Association in Sunderland as we'd heard about the then new Crazy Golf course there.

Unfortunately we couldn't find anyone to hire clubs and balls from so were unable to play the very nice looking 7-hole course.

During that trip north we visited a total of 49 courses, playing 13 of them.

The Crazy Golf course at St Mark's Community Association in Sunderland was the 495th course visited on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour. We've now been to 933 courses since September 2006.

Galaxy Quest Adventure Golf in Sunderland

New Galaxy Quest Adventure Golf now open in Sunderland.

There's a new Adventure Golf course in Sunderland. The 12-hole Galaxy Quest Adventure Golf course opened at Laser Quest Sunderland this month.

Check out the Galaxy Quest Adventure Golf website for more information, opening times and prices.

It's another new course for us to play on our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour during a future visit to the North East. We do like a game of laser tag too.

Many thanks to our friend and minigolf rival John Moore for letting us know about the course.

We were actually in Sunderland last month, albeit the one in Lancashire!

A visit to Sunderland. In Lancashire

Making a journey to the village of Sunderland.

We never expected to be visiting Sunderland while on the other side of the country

Our adventures around the UK began back in 2006 when we got our first car and set about visiting as many seasides as possible. This segued into what has become our mammoth mission to visit every miniature golf course in the British Isles (and beyond).

Searching out minigolf courses has seen us visit so many out of the way and interesting places we would likely never have otherwise been to. Our latest trip to the Lancashire and Cumbria coast was no different.

As we left Lancaster we spotted a place called Sunderland on the map and as we've also been to the 'real' one we thought we'd take a look at what the Lancashire version had to offer.

The village of Sunderland lies at the tip of a marshy peninsula and is only accessible by a somewhat treacherous single-track road. Or boat.

The sort of warning sign you always want to see

This was the road into Sunderland Point. There is no way you'd ever reach the National Speed Limit on the track!

And another warning sign part way along the route

Sunderland Point is a unique place, as it is home to the only community on the UK mainland that is dependent upon tidal access!

The tide was out

We kept a careful eye out to make sure we didn't get stranded

It was nice to visit Sunderland Point and on our drive to the village we didn't have to use any of the 'passing points'. However, on our return trip we had to reverse a fair distance to allow another car to pass. An interesting drive to say the least.

The road out of Sunderland Point

Another beach visited on our seaside travels

Some interesting info and warnings on a sign at Sunderland Point 

These conveniences were a welcome sight after the somewhat terrifying drive to the village

The view from Sunderland Point

  

We left Sunderland Point before any water got anywhere near the High Water Level mark

On our travels we've found A.N. Other versions of a number of towns/islands/states/countries! We've also been to the Isle of Wight and Ireland (in Bedfordshire), Egypt (in Buckinghamshire), Oxford (in Northumberland), New England (in Essex), Canada (in the New Forest) and a pair of Lutons (in Kent and Devon).

Are there any other doppelganger places you'd recommend for us to visit?