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Gateshead
Town in Tyne and Wear, England

Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England.

Plan a trip to Gateshead→From Leeds, West Yorkshire

It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. At the 2021 census, the population was 196,151.

Get in

Getting to Gateshead

For long-distance routes see Newcastle upon Tyne.

  1. 01
    Newcastle Central station is just north

    It has frequent trains from London King's Cross and the Midlands via York, from Edinburgh via Berwick, and from Carlisle via Hexham.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Gateshead Millennium Bridge
  2. 02
    BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

    South Shore Road, Gateshead NE8 3BA (south end of Millennium Bridge),.

  3. 03
    Shipley Art Gallery

    Small but well-stocked gallery of Dutch and British art and craftwork, including ceramics, wood, metal, glass, textiles and furniture.

  4. 04
    Saltwell Towers is a Victorian
  5. 05
    Bowes Railway

    Standard-gauge colliery railway, originally 15 miles long, and the central 6 miles were so steep that they were cable-hauled by static engines.

  6. 06
    Angel of the North
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    The Sage Gateshead

    A modern music arena, designed by Foster and Partners in the early 2000s.

  2. 02
    Gateshead International Stadium
Eat

Where to eat

Beneath Tyne Bridge are Träkol (below), Windows on The Tyne (within Hilton Hotel) and Raval. Träkol, Hillgate Quays NE8 2BH (beneath Tyne Bridge),. Wed-Fri 5PM-10PM, Sat noon-2PM, 5PM-10PM, Sun noon-6PM. This gets great reviews; it's mostly seafood. Low Fell two miles south on the old Durham road has a strip with Primavera, Rosa 12, The Bank, Imperial and Ilbay's. Plenty more in Newcastle just across the bridge.

How locals move

Getting around Gateshead the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.