Pallion

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{{Infobox UK place

| map_type = Tyne and Wear

| country = England

| official_name = Pallion

| coordinates = {{coord|54.904183|-1.415503|display=inline,title}}

| population = 10,117

| population_ref = (2011.ward){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13689667&c=SR4+6AJ&d=14&e=62&g=6360126&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1437558017949&enc=1|title=Sunderland ward population 2011|access-date=22 July 2015}}

| metropolitan_borough = City of Sunderland

| metropolitan_county = Tyne and Wear

| region = North East England

| constituency_westminster = Sunderland Central

| post_town = SUNDERLAND

| postcode_area = SR

| postcode_district = SR4

| dial_code = 0191

| os_grid_reference =

}}

Pallion is a suburb and electoral ward in North West Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Most of the buildings in the area were built during the Victorian Era and consist of large terraced houses built for shipbuilders, but also smaller one-storey cottages in other areas for local workers (the shipyard industry has now long gone).

The place-name 'Pallion' is first attested in 1328, where it appears as le Pavylion. This is a French name meaning 'the Pavilion'.Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.357.

On the edge of the parish (on the bank of the River Wear) once stood Pallion Hall, the childhood home of Sir Joseph Swan, developer of the lightbulb.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/bright-spark-who-lit-up-1602410|title = Bright spark who lit up the whole world|date = 18 January 2004}} The house was demolished in 1901.{{Cite web|url=http://www.twsitelines.info/SMR/8477|title = Pallion Hall|date = 26 May 2021}} Near this part of the area is a retail park, Pallion Metro station and an industrial estate. The new Northern Spire Bridge crosses the Wear just to the east of here.

Image:Pallion, Sunderland.jpg

Pallion was also the home of the infamous New Monkey club, which had shaped rave culture in the North East. The club was shut down in 2006 after a drugs raid where there were 18 arrests. 165 officers stormed the club, later the club was forced to shut down.{{Cite web|url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/who-remembers-infamous-new-monkey-12645574|title = Who remembers New Monkey nightclub? The troubled venue that was haven for ravers|date = 25 February 2017}}

The electoral ward of Pallion was a safe seat for the Labour Party from its creation in the 1970s until early 2018, when it was won by Liberal Democrat campaigner Martin Haswell.[https://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/lib-dems-claim-surprise-council-by-election-win-over-labour-in-sunderland-1-8996472] Pallion's ethnicity is very similar to the Sunderland average.