Rowlands Gill is a huge village situated along the A694, between Winlaton Mill and Hamsterley Mill, on the north financial institution of the River Derwent, in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Within Gateshead's greenbelt, the village has a picturesque setup with much open space and also views across the valley to Gibside Estate, now owned by the National Trust. With the coming of the Derwent Valley Railway in 1867, Rowlands Gill ended up being an economically viable coal mining village, and also later a semi-rural dorm suburban area of business and commercial Tyneside. An independent village within Blaydon Urban District, in Area Durham, it ended up being incorporated into the Area of Tyne and Wear and also the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1974.