'Goats', Gateshead Riverside Park
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'Goats', Gateshead Riverside Park
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 15 Dec 2011
A herd of recycled metal goats by Sally Matthews (1992) forage in the woods of Rabbit Banks above Pipwellgate. One possible derivation of the place-name, Gateshead, is 'where goats once grazed on the headland'. There was once a Goat Inn on Bottle Bank.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.96398
Longitude
-1.612012