Rowlands Gill
Rowlands Gill is a huge town located 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 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 resulting the Derwent Valley Railway in 1867, Rowlands Gill became a financially feasible coal mining town, and later on a semi-rural dorm room residential area of commercial as well as industrial Tyneside. An independent town within Blaydon Urban District, in County Durham, it became integrated right into the Region of Tyne and Wear and the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1974.
