[2] It is on the south bank of the River Tyne between Gateshead and Jarrow and opposite Wallsend and Walker.

The first record of Hebburn mentions a settlement of fishermen's huts in the 8th century, which were burned by the Vikings.

In 1792 the Ellisons received royalties from coal mining expansion[4] when Hebburn Colliery opened.

Humphry Davy stayed with Cuthbert Ellison at Hebburn Hall in 1815 and took samples of the explosive methane 'fire damp' gas from the Hebburn mine which were taken to London in wine bottles for experiments into the development of a miners' safety lamp.

He expanded the Ellison estate, further, with shipbuilding,[4] and in 200 years of industrialisation, Hebburn grew into a modern town of 20,000 inhabitants.

In 1936 Monkton Coke Works was built by the Government, in response to the Jarrow Hunger March in 1932.

Hitler's Operation Sea Lion documents had detailed plans to capture the Reyrolle Electrical Switchgear Company.

[11] One ship built at the shipyard was HMS Kelly,[12] launched in 1938 and commanded by Lord Louis Mountbatten.

[6] One hundred and thirty men were killed in the disaster and they are remembered in memorials at Hebburn Cemetery,[13] which were erected by surviving members of the crew and workers from Hawthorn Leslie.

[9] The former British Short-Circuit Testing Station in Victoria Road West within the town, owned by A. Reyrolle & Company provided the backdrop for the Gary Numan video "Metal".

Hebburn Argyle, which existed in the early 1900s, reformed several years ago as a youth club.

The plans to build the track were passed in September 1944 and it cost £30,000 to construct a venue that could accommodate 6,000 people.

The Yellow line serves stations between South Shields, Newcastle Central, Whitley Bay and St James.

[26] The nearest National Rail station is at Heworth, which is a stop on the Durham Coast Line between Newcastle, Sunderland, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough; services are operated by Northern Trains.

[28] A mid-Tyne ferry service, which was owned by several shipyards, once operated between Hebburn, Walker and Wallsend; it last ran in 1986.