Gateshead
Worth seeing in and around Gateshead
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 05Newcastle Cathedral
Grade I listed cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
1.1 km · Wikipedia - 06Blue Shield International
International organization founded to protect the world's cultural heritage
2.2 km · Wikipedia - 07
- 08St Mary's Cathedral
Catholic cathedral in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
1.4 km · Wikipedia - 09Castrum Segedunum
Roman fort in Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
5.3 km · Wikipedia - 10
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Gateshead
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 10 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 122 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 157 km
- Stations
- Newcastle railway station, 1.2 km · Manors railway station, 1.2 km · Heworth, 3.2 km · Dunston railway station, 2.9 km · Central Station metro station, 1.2 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Gateshead130 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Gateshead155 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · £19–25
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Gateshead170 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £21–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Gateshead
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Gateshead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inPort of Tyne, east of city centre, has overnight DFDS ferries from IJmuiden near Amsterdam.
- Get aroundThe Transport North East Day Ticket covers bus, Metro, rail and ferry services within Tyne and Wear for £6.00 per day, or £6.80 including County Durham and Northumberland.
- Get aroundA ride from city centre to the airport in 2022 is around £15, and to the ferry terminal is £18.
From Wikivoyage: Newcastle upon Tyne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Gateshead – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gateshead
Gateshead is 1 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Newcastle upon Tynecity in Tyne and Wear, England, UK1.9 km
- Wallsendtown in North Tyneside, England, United Kingdom5.6 km
- Whickhamtown in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, UK4.9 km
- Gosforthsuburb of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England5.2 km
- Lamesleyvillage and civil parish in Tyne and Wear, England, UK5.1 km
- Blakelaw and North Fenhamcivil parish in Tyne and Wear, England, UK5.1 km