[1] Gosforth borders Jesmond and the Town Moor to the south, High Heaton and Longbenton to the east, and Kenton to the west.

[4] According to the 19th-century publication, A Topographical Dictionary of England, the township of Gosforth was held of the crown by the Surtees family from 1100 to 1509, when it passed by marriage to Robert Brandling.

It originally consisted of a number of properties large enough to qualify occupiers for the franchise (so-called 'forty shilling freeholders' (£2)), built by the Bulman family in an attempt to provide voters for their cause in the 1826 elections.

Between 1831 and 1871 the population only grew by a very small amount to 3,723, due to the pits at Fawdon and Kenton having ceased to function.

[3] There have been a number of archaeological finds in Gosforth,[11] with the earliest piece being a prehistoric flint flake that was found in 1959.

Melton Park has the ruins of a chapel which dates back to early medieval or late Norman times.

Famous sportsmen from Gosforth include footballer Alan Shearer and athlete Jonathan Edwards.

The ground on which the Asda supermarket stands was formerly the Gosforth Greyhound Stadium until the late 1980s and the home of Northumberland RFU.

Northern Rock had a landmark tower building, built in the 1960s, which in the 2000s was replaced with a 10-storey office building; Partnership House, as it is now known since being sold by the bank, now houses companies including law firm Clifford Chance and video games developer Ubisoft Reflections.

[29] Procter & Gamble plc formerly had their UK head office in Newcastle, at Hedley House, Gosforth, that was developed in the 1950s.

The principal building in this complex, Hedley House itself (c. 1953) was designed by Sidney Burn, staff architect to Thos.

The 1994 extension to the site (now demolished) won the 1994 New Building Category in the Lord Mayor's Design Awards.

Procter & Gamble left the site in 2001 to move to Cobalt Business Park, near the eastern city boundary with North Tyneside, and the Gosforth land is now used for residential properties.

[31] Shops on the High Street include a branch of Boots, Thorpes (a well established local hardware store), estate agents, hairdressers and banks, among many others.

Nick Cott, Councillor for West Gosforth ward, noted that current discussions were about transport issues and environmental improvements.

[36] Its previous owner for more than a decade was Graham Wylie, co-founder of the Sage Group, which itself was headquartered just outside Gosforth in the North Park development, who had bought it for £9.25 million.

[37] The Brandling Arms pub on the High Street has its own local edition of My Monopoly, using Gosforth locations.

Other pubs on Gosforth High Street are the Gosforth Hotel (built 1878),[38] the Queen Victoria (known for a short time as Northern Lights),[39] the Blacksmith's Arms,[40] Barca (formally Earl Grey)[41] and the Job Bulman, a branch of Wetherspoons located in the former 1920s post office building on St Nicholas Avenue,[42] and named after the founder of Bulman Village.

The County Hotel, towards the southern end of the centre of Gosforth, is the southernmost High Street pub.

Former public houses in Gosforth include the Collingwood in Regent Farm, and the Royal George in Brunton Park which closed in June 2009.

The control centre for the Metro system is located at South Gosforth station, and the main depot and car sheds are nearby.

Regent Centre's Transport Interchange also contains a large bus station and multi-storey car park.

[43] In the late 1850s, prior to horse trams, a resident by the name of Mark Frater established an omnibus service connecting Gosforth and Newcastle.

For example, it is not available to homes covered by the Wideopen Telephone Exchange in the north of the suburb, or in Garden Village to the east of the Asda superstore, or the Regent Farm area.

[52] A public meeting was held about the closure of the Garden Village post office on the evening of 28 July.

[3] Whilst the fire brigade was stationed in Gosforth there was a siren that used to alert motorists and public alike that they would be leaving the hidden entrance.

An unattended mortuary was situated in what was at one time quite an isolated rural spot to the east of the Three Mile Bridge.

This small single-storey red-brick building with green doors was surrounded by trees and a crooked metal fence and was used for people who had died from infectious diseases or had been killed in road traffic accidents.

Residents of nearby Burnside Road (built in the late 1950s) would hear ambulances pass down the lane in the middle of the night and see undertakers arrive to collect bodies during the day.

[54] In 2014 the Gosforth Customer Service Centre closed and the space is now occupied by part of Newcastle City Learning.