Gateshead, a municipal and parliamentary borough of Durham, England, on the right bank of the river Tyne, opposite Newcastle, with which it is connected by a fine railway viaduct and by a stone bridge; pop. in 1871, 48,592. Its manufactures are closely connected with those of Newcastle, and comprise ships, anchors, chain cables, nails, hemp, wire ropes, iron castings, locomotive engines, boilers, etc. There are extensive collieries and grindstone quarries in the vicinity.