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Local Information for Rowlands Gill

Rowlands Gill is an old coal mining village on the north side of the River Derwent, in the borough of Gateshead. The old village has developed dramatically over the second half of the twentieth century; it has become quite a wealthy area with many of Gateshead's foremost citizens living there. The town is adjacent to the Derwent Walk Country Park on the side of the River Derwent, opposite the National Trust Gibside.

Gibside was landscaped in the 18th century, it is a former home of the Bowes-Lyon family, Earls of Strathmore. It includes a chapel (Gibside Chapel, built between 1760 and 1812), a banquet hall, a statue of Liberty, an avenue of oaks, many miles of walks, and several lakes. The main house of the estate was a celebrated stately home, now reduced to a shell after becoming vacant in the 1940s, when death duties forced the Bowes-Lyon family to scale back its lavish lifestyle and give up some of its great houses. www.national ...More