Tyneside
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| Coordinates: 54°59′15″N 1°27′30″W / 54.98750°N 1.45833°WCoordinates: 54°59′15″N 1°27′30″W / 54.98750°N 1.45833°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Country | England |
| Region | North East |
| County | Tyne and Wear |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 774,891 |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC) |
| • Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) |
Tyneside is a conurbation in North East England which includes a number of settlements on the banks of the River Tyne. As defined by the Office for National Statistics, the conurbation comprises Newcastle upon Tyne—a city forming the urban core—as well as a number of other towns including Gateshead, Tynemouth, Wallsend, South Shields, and Jarrow. The population of the conurbation was 774,891 according to the 2011 census.
Tyneside is historically part of the counties of Northumberland and County Durham. Today it spans four local authority districts: the City of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Metropolitan Boroughs of Gateshead, North Tyneside and South Tyneside. According to data from 2013 ONS population estimates; the Tyne population, including the four local authority districts, was 832,469.
Tyneside is the 7th largest conurbation in England, and home to over 80 percent of the population of Tyne and Wear. The other two large settlements in Tyne and Wear—Sunderland and Washington—form the separate Wearside conurbation.
The people of the Tyneside area, called "Geordies", have a reputation for their distinctive dialect and accent. Tynesiders may have been given this name, a local diminutive of the name "George", because their miners used George Stephenson's safety lamp (invented in 1815 and called a "Georgie lamp") to prevent firedamp explosions, rather than the Davy lamp used elsewhere. An alternative explanation relates that during the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745 the Tynesiders declared their allegiance to the Hanoverian kings of Great Britain George I and George II; whereas the rest of the county of Northumberland, to the north, stood loyal to James Francis Edward Stuart.
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