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  2. Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead - Wikipedia

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    The town of Gateshead was an ancient borough, having been granted a charter in 1164 from Hugh Pudsey, the Bishop of Durham. [5] The borough's functions were relatively limited until 1836, when it was made a municipal borough under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835, which standardised how most boroughs operated across the country.

  3. Gateshead - Wikipedia

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    Gateshead (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ t s (h) ɛ d /) is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England.It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

  4. The Glasshouse, Gateshead - Wikipedia

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    The Glasshouse is an international centre for musical education and concerts on the Gateshead bank of Quayside in northern England. Opened in 2004 as Sage Gateshead and occupied by North Music Trust [1] The venue's original name honours a patron: the accountancy software company The Sage Group.

  5. Gateshead F.C. - Wikipedia

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    Gateshead Football Club is a professional association football club based in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. The club competes in the National League , the fifth level of the English football league system , as of the 2024–25 season.

  6. North East Combined Authority (2014–2024) - Wikipedia

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    The North East Combined Authority (NECA), officially the Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Combined Authority, was one of the combined authorities in North East England. It was created in 2014, and consisted of the City of Sunderland ; Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead , South Tyneside ; and Durham County local authorities.

  7. Cardinal Hume Catholic School - Wikipedia

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    Cardinal Hume Catholic School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Beacon Lough area of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. [1] It is named after Basil Cardinal Hume , a former President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales .

  8. High Spen - Wikipedia

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    High Spen is an old mining village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, historically part of County Durham, England.First recorded in 1379 as a small hamlet called ‘Spen’, the settlement grew in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries with the growth of coal mining in the region.

  9. Staiths South Bank - Wikipedia

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    This site occupies land adjacent to the Dunston Staiths on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead.. The Staiths is a large, multi-level timber structure built out onto the river on a curved platform, originally built to load bulk materials, (particularly coal), from railway carriages on railway tracks into merchant vessels moored alongside.