Rowlands Gill
Rowlands Gill is a big town situated along the A694, between Winlaton Mill and 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 a picturesque setup with much open space as well as sights throughout the valley to Gibside Estate, now had by the National Trust. With the coming of the Derwent Valley Railway in 1867, Rowlands Gill became an economically viable coal mining village, and also later a semi-rural dorm room residential area of industrial as well as commercial Tyneside. An independent village within Blaydon Urban District, in County Durham, it came to be incorporated right into the Area of Tyne and Wear and also the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1974.
