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All 5 boroughs and 29 towns and villages on this site, plotted on one map, plus a full A–Z gazetteer of the smaller places in between. Filter by borough, click a pin, and jump straight to the history.
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All 34 pages, by borough
Newcastle upon Tyne
Roman bridge, Norman castle, Georgian grandeur and a regenerated Quayside.
Read more Newcastle · TownGosforth
Racecourse, leafy streets and Newcastle's affluent north side.
Read more Newcastle · AreaElswick
William Armstrong's vast riverside works, once an industrial empire.
Read more Newcastle · AreaBenwell
Condercum Roman fort and the unique Temple of Antenociticus.
Read more Newcastle · AreaByker
The iconic Byker Wall estate, and the home of Byker Grove.
Read more Newcastle · AreaJesmond
Jesmond Dene, Armstrong's gift of a wooded valley to the city.
Read more Newcastle · VillageNewburn
Site of the 1640 Battle of Newburn Ford, on the road to civil war.
Read more Newcastle · AreaHeaton
Home of C. A. Parsons, inventor of the power-station turbine.
Read more Gateshead · BoroughGateshead
Angel of the North, BALTIC, and the tilting Millennium Bridge.
Read more Gateshead · TownBlaydon
Home of "The Blaydon Races," Tyneside's unofficial anthem.
Read more Gateshead · TownFelling
The 1812 colliery disaster that helped bring the safety lamp.
Read more Gateshead · TownBirtley
Elisabethville, the WWI village built for Belgian refugee workers.
Read more Gateshead · VillageWhickham
Six centuries of coal, and possibly the world's first railway.
Read more Gateshead · VillageWinlaton
Crowley's Ironworks, once probably the largest in Europe.
Read more Sunderland · CitySunderland
Bede's Monkwearmouth monastery and the world's busiest shipyards.
Read more Sunderland · AreaHendon
Dockside terraces built for Sunderland's shipyard and port workers.
Read more Sunderland · TownWashington
Ancestral home of George Washington's family, and a 1960s New Town.
Read more Sunderland · SeafrontRoker & Seaburn
Roker Pier and Lighthouse, and two miles of sandy beach.
Read more Sunderland · VillageRyhope
Two giant Victorian beam engines, still steamed today.
Read more Sunderland · TownHetton-le-Hole
George Stephenson's first-ever railway, built in 1822.
Read more Sunderland · VillagePenshaw
Penshaw Monument, a half-size Greek temple on a Wearside hill.
Read more North Tyneside · BoroughNorth Tyneside
The coastal borough where Hadrian's Wall meets the North Sea.
Read more North Tyneside · TownLongbenton
From coal-mining village to one of the government's biggest offices.
Read more North Tyneside · TownWallsend
Segedunum Roman fort, Swan Hunter's shipyard, and Sting's hometown.
Read more North Tyneside · TownTynemouth
Clifftop priory ruins standing guard over two golden beaches.
Read more North Tyneside · TownWhitley Bay
Classic seaside resort with a restored Spanish City dome.
Read more North Tyneside · TownNorth Shields
The historic Fish Quay, once one of England's great fishing ports.
Read more North Tyneside · VillageCullercoats
The tiny fishing harbour where Winslow Homer found his muse.
Read more North Tyneside · TownKillingworth
Where George Stephenson built his very first locomotives.
Read more South Tyneside · BoroughSouth Tyneside
Roman Arbeia fort, standing guard at the mouth of the Tyne.
Read more South Tyneside · TownJarrow
Bede's monastery, Palmer's shipyard, and the 1936 Jarrow March.
Read more South Tyneside · TownSouth Shields
Catherine Cookson's hometown, and a wide sandy seafront.
Read more South Tyneside · TownHebburn
Shipbuilding at Hawthorn Leslie, and the town behind the BBC sitcom.
Read more South Tyneside · VillageWhitburn
Souter Lighthouse, the world's first built for electric power.
Read moreAnd everywhere else
The full gazetteer
65 more named neighbourhoods, suburbs and villages across the county, each with its own page — click any name below.
Know a place that deserves its own page? This is a living project — the full history pages above started out on this list too.