Gateshead - People from Gateshead (District), Politics of Gateshead, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead Council Election, 2004, Gateshead Council Election (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: People from Gateshead (district), Politics of Gateshead, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead Council election, 2004, Gateshead Council election, 2003, Gateshead Council election, 2006, Gateshead Council election, 2002, Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Sheriff Hill Colliery, Blaydon, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead local elections, Traidcraft, Steve Atkinson, Gateshead East and Washington West, Tom Farrage, Bill Kibby, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead by-election, 1931, Thomas Young, Gateshead Council election, 1999, Leam Lane Estate, Gateshead Council election, 2000, Charles Augustus Hartley, Gateshead Grammar School, Coffee Johnny, Gateshead Garden Festival, Gateshead West, Gateshead College, Gateshead Council election, 1998, Ernest Beardshaw, Ian Mearns, NewcastleGateshead. Excerpt: Sheriff Hill is a settlement (formerly a village) situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England. It is bordered by High Fell and Deckham to the North, Beacon Lough to the South, Windy Nook and Carr Hill to the East and Low Fell to the West. It lies 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Gateshead, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and 12 miles (19 km) north of the historic City of Durham. According to the 2001 UK census, the settlement has a population of 5,051. For centuries little more than a "windswept, barren and treacherous heath," the settlement at Sheriff Hill was initially established by a moderate influx of tinkers and miners in the 18th century. Considered a village in the historic county of Durham for almost as long as it has been inhabited in measurable numbers, it was formally incorporated into the newly formed Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead by the Local Government Act 1972 which took effect on 1 April 1974. One of the more populous of the two dozen or so villages which now ...