Rowlands Gill is a large village positioned along the A694, between Winlaton Mill as well as Hamsterley Mill, on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan District of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Within Gateshead's greenbelt, the village has an attractive setup with much open space as well as 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 came to be an economically sensible coal mining village, as well as later on a semi-rural dorm suburban area of business and industrial Tyneside. An independent village within Blaydon Urban District, in Area Durham, it came to be included right into the Area of Tyne and Wear and also the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1974.