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Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as ad caput caprae ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them Gatesheued (c. 1190), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'.
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.
Gateshead [1] is the home to a sizable community of what are often called ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jews. The community is acclaimed for its higher educational institutions and is often referred to as the Oxbridge of Britain’s Jewish community. [2] [3] [4] Talmudic students from many countries travel to Gateshead to attend its yeshivas and kollels.
The great fire of Gateshead and Newcastle was a tragic and spectacular series of events starting on Friday 6 October 1854, in which a substantial amount of property in two North East England towns was destroyed in a series of fires and an explosion which killed 53 and injured hundreds.
The Jewish Teachers' Training College, Gateshead (also known as Beth Midrash Lemoroth) [1] is an all-girls school on Bewick Road in Gateshead, England. [1] [2]It is also commonly known by most people as "Gateshead Old" due to another seminary that opened later in Gateshead which is referred to as "Gateshead New".
Gateshead Fell, a constituent part of the ancient County of Durham, [2] took its name from nearby Gateshead and the fact that the area was "a fell or common contigious to it". [3] It has existed in some form for over one thousand years, but little of that early history survives today. [2]
Saltwell Park is a Victorian park in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.Opened in 1876, the park was designed by Edward Kemp and incorporates the mansion and associated grounds of the Saltwellgate estate owner, William Wailes, who sold his estate to Gateshead Council for £35,000.
Gateshead was a constituency [n 1] most recently represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since it was re-established in 2010 until its abolition for the 2024 general election by Ian Mearns of the Labour Party.