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Gateshead is a metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, in north-east England. It is named for its main town, Gateshead. Other settlements include Rowlands Gill, Felling, Whickham, Blaydon, Ryton, Pelaw, Dunston and Low Fell.
The district has some 190,000 inhabitants and lies within the historic county boundaries of County Durham. The county borough of Gateshead was combined along with the urban districts of Felling, Blaydon, Ryton and part of Chester-le-Street Rural District into the new Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1974. In 1986 the County Council of Tyne and Wear was abolished, and so Gateshead Council effectively became a unitary authority.
There were originally two civil parishes in Gateshead - Birtley and Lamesley, both from the Chester-le-Street RD. Birtley Town Council and parish were abolished on April 1, 2006. [1]
Gateshead is home to the Team Valley, a large trading estate; the Baltic, a flagship contemporary art gallery; the Sage Gateshead, a music centre; the Angel of the North, an Anthony Gormley sculpture and the MetroCentre, the largest shopping centre in Europe.
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