Gateshead
The Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, England. It includes Gateshead, Rowlands Gill, Whickham, Blaydon, Ryton, Felling, Birtley, Pelaw, Dunston and Low Fell.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: metropolitan borough with 202,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England
- Also known as: “Gateshead (metropolitan borough)”, “Gateshead District”, and “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”
- Neighbors: Northumberland and South Tyneside
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dunston railway station and Ravensworth Castle.
Dunston railway station
Railway station
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Dunston is a railway station on the Tyne Valley Line, which runs between Newcastle and Carlisle via Hexham. The station, situated 2 miles 23 chains west of Newcastle, serves the suburb of Dunston, Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.
Ravensworth Castle
Ruins
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Ravensworth Castle is a ruinous Grade II* listed building and a scheduled monument situated at Lamesley, Tyne and Wear, England. The building has been destroyed and rebuilt a number of times, and was the seat of the Ravensworth barons, the Liddells.
Washing Wells Roman Fort
Archaeological site
Washing Wells Roman Fort, was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its ruins are located at southeast of Whickham in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne.
Gateshead
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Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear in the northeast of England. It stands on the south bank of the River Tyne looking across to Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank.
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Newcastle upon Tyne is a city in Tyne and Wear in the north-east of England. It's an industrial but lively, cultural place on the north bank of the River Tyne, with a population of just over 300,000 in 2019, and another half a million residing in its outlying areas.
Beamish
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Beamish is a village in County Durham in northeast England. The village is just a straggle of miners' houses and the only reason to visit is the extensive open-air museum. Stanley is a former mining town two miles west, with a population of 19,427 in 2021.
Gateshead
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Welsh—“Gateshead” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Гейтсгэд”
- Breton: “Gateshead”
- Catalan: “Gateshead”
- Cebuano: “Gateshead”
- Chinese: “蓋茨黑德都市自治市”
- Dutch: “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”
- French: “district métropolitain de Gateshead”
- French: “District métropolitain de Gateshead”
- French: “Gateshead”
- German: “Gateshead”
- German: “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”
- Hebrew: “גייטסהד”
- Irish: “Gateshead”
- Italian: “Gateshead”
- Japanese: “ゲーツヘッド・カウンシル”
- Japanese: “メトロポリタン・バラ・オブ・ゲーツヘッド”
- Korean: “게이츠헤드 도시 자치구”
- Latvian: “Geitsheda (boro)”
- Latvian: “Geitsheda”
- Luxembourgish: “Gateshead”
- Northern Frisian: “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gateshead”
- Norwegian: “Gateshead”
- Persian: “کلانشهر مستقل گیتسهد”
- Polish: “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”
- Russian: “Гейтсхед”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Gateshead”
- Swedish: “Gateshead”
- Swedish: “Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead”
- Ukrainian: “Гейтсхед”
- Urdu: “میٹروپولیٹن بورو گیٹسہیڈ”
- Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Fetropolitan Gateshead”
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