Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Gateshead

Gateshead was where the series began. Working from my home in Dunston - where I ran a small business selling secondhand maps - I published a reprint of the Gateshead East map in September 1981. With encouragement and support from the local education department and library, I quickly published further maps, and the series soon spread to Newcastle, South Shields and Sunderland. By 1983 I was publishing maps for other areas of the country.

Not surprisingly we still have a good range of maps for Gateshead and we are always looking at ways of improving the group. A Rowlands Gill map was added in 2000 and we have issued fresh editions of the Blaydon, Low Fell and Gateshead Fell maps, with newly commissioned historical notes.

This page lists all the available maps for Gateshead. Sheet-numbering is confusing because many of the maps were issued by the Ordnance Survey in a Tyneside series; we retain this numbering (and have actually extended it to a few other maps). Other maps were left with their original County Durham sheet numbers. Click on the thumbnail right for an index map for the area, and hopefully this will make things clear! Information pages are being added for individual maps; simply follow the links where these have been added.