Tyne and Wear is one of six metropolitan counties in England, comprising the estuary areas of the rivers Tyne and Wear[?]. It is divided into the following council areas: South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead and Sunderland. It borders on County Durham and Northumberland.

Towns and villages

• Blaydon[?], Boldon[?], Byker[?]
• Castletown[?], Cleadon[?], Cullercoats[?]
• Gateshead[?], Gosforth[?]
• Hebburn[?]
• Jarrow
• Longbenton[?]
• Marsden, Tyne and Wear[?], Monkseaton[?]
• Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Shields[?]
• Rowlands Gill[?], Ryhope[?]
• South Shields[?], Sunderland[?]
• Tynemouth[?]
• Wallsend, Washington[?], Whickham[?], Whitburn[?], Whitburn Colliery[?], Whitley Bay[?]

Places of interest

• Hadrian's Wall
• Gibside[?]
• Tynemouth Castle[?]
• Souter Point Lighthouse[?]
• St. Mary's Lighthouse[?]
• WWT Washington, a wildfowl and wetland reserve of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
• Sea to Sea Cycle Route[?]

Elsewhere

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