Rowlands Gill
Rowlands Gill is a huge town situated along the A694, between Winlaton Mill and Hamsterley Mill, on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Within Gateshead's greenbelt, the village has a picturesque setting with much open space and also views across the valley to Gibside Estate, currently owned by the National Trust. With the coming of the Derwent Valley Railway in 1867, Rowlands Gill became an economically practical coal mining town, and later on a semi-rural dorm room suburban area of commercial as well as industrial Tyneside. An independent town within Blaydon Urban District, in County Durham, it became included right into the County of Tyne and Wear and the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1974.
