North Tyneside

North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear in England. Administrative center is the city of Wallsend. Other important towns in the Borough are Cullercoats, Forest Hall, Killingworth, North Shields, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. It is twinned with Mönchengladbach in Germany.

The reorganization of the limits and the capabilities of local authorities led in 1974 to form the Metropolitan Borough. Were fused while the Tynemouth County Borough, the Borough Wallsend, Whitley Bay, part of the Borough, of Longbenton Urban District and part of the Urban District Seaton Valley. These authorities previously belonged to the county of Northumberland.

1986 North Tyneside was in fact a Unitary Authority, as the central government dissolved the overall management of the county. North Tyneside was for ceremonial purposes part of Tyne and Wear, as well as for individual higher-level tasks such as firefighters and public transport.