Whickham is a village in Tyne and Wear, North East England,[1] within the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.

[3] South-west of Whickham, above the River Derwent, are the ruins of Old Hollinside, a fortified manor house[4] once owned by the Bowes-Lyon family.

[5] Whickham Urban District, created in 1894, also covered the parishes of Dunston, Marley Hill and Byermoor, and Swalwell.

[6] Changes to local government in 1974 saw the parish and urban district abolished and replaced by an unparished area, at first within Tyne and Wear, then from 1986 within the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead.

The Gibside School for special educational needs and disabilities moved to a new location away from Whickham in Spring 2021.