Rowlands Gill 1895

Detailed map of Rowlands Gill; Durham sheet 6.09. Historical introduction by Jennifer Gill. This very detailed map covers the village of Rowlands Gill, today at the southern end of Gateshead Borough. In 1895 this was scarcely a village and there was little here other than a row of houses, a station on the NER Consett Branch, and the Towneley Arms. To the north is the Lily Drift mine. The River Derwent meanders through the map and to the east is Gibside with its grounds and mausoleum chapel, by James Paine. The map stretches east to Gibside Hill Head. On the reverse we include part of sheet 5.12, extending coverage west to Victoria Garesfield and its colliery , with the Victoria Garesfield Colliery Railway.

Reduced from the original Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map to a scale of approximately 1:4,340 (or about 15" to the mile). This edition published by Alan Godfrey Maps, Leadgate, Consett