Gateshead, an English town, situated on the Tyne, on N. border of Durham; it is united to Newcastle by three bridges spanning the river; it contains some handsome and interesting buildings, besides extensive iron-works, foundries, soap, glass, and chemical manufactories; it was here Defoe lived when he wrote “Robinson Crusoe.”
Population (circa 1900) given as 86,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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