Rowlands Gill is a big town situated along the A694, between Winlaton Mill as well as Hamsterley Mill, on the north financial institution of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan District of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Within Gateshead's greenbelt, the village has a stunning setting with much open space and views throughout the valley to Gibside Estate, currently possessed by the National Trust. With the resulting the Derwent Valley Railway in 1867, Rowlands Gill ended up being an economically viable coal mining village, and later a semi-rural dorm residential area of business as well as commercial Tyneside. An independent town within Blaydon Urban District, in County Durham, it became incorporated right into the Area of Tyne and Wear and the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1974.