Rowlands Gill
Rowlands Gill is a village on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
Rowlands Gill is a village on the north bank of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The Gibside Estate is near the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Rowlands Gill
3 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.
- 01St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church is a 19th-century church in Winlaton, Tyne and Wear, England, dedicated to St Paul. It is a Grade II listed building.
3.6 km · church in Winlaton, England · Wikipedia - 02Banqueting House, Gibside
The Banqueting House is an 18th-century building, part of the Gibside estate, near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Its style has been described as "Gothick".
1.7 km · banqueting house · Wikipedia - 03Whinfield Power Station
Whinfield coke works was a large industrial complex located near Rowlands Gill in Tyne and Wear, North East England. The complex comprised a coking plant, alloy factory and power station.
1.4 km · historic site in England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Rowlands Gill
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 13 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 117 km · Edinburgh (EDI), 154 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Rowlands Gill125 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £15–20
- Ingliston, Edinburgh → Rowlands Gill153 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · £19–26
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rowlands Gill163 km · quickest by road, 3h 31m · £21–28
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No local-transport research exists yet for Rowlands Gill
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 Rowlands Gill. 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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Next door to Rowlands Gill
Rowlands Gill is 10 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Winlaton Millvillage in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England3.1 km