Editing Gateshead (section)

===Name origins===
Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in [[Bede|Bede's]] ''[[Ecclesiastical History of the English People]]'' as ''ad caput caprae'' ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them ''Gatesheued'' ({{Circa|1190}}), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'. Although other derivations have been mooted, it is this that is given by the standard authorities.<ref>Bethany Fox, ''The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland'', The Heroic Age, 10 (2007), {{cite web |url=http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html |title=Fox—The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East England and South-East Scotland |access-date=9 January 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20180111041001/http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox.html |archive-date=11 January 2018 }} (appendix at {{cite web |url=http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html |title=Fox—P-Celtic Place-Names—Appendix |access-date=23 May 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509072208/http://www.heroicage.org/issues/10/fox-appendix.html |archive-date=9 May 2016 }}).</ref>

A [[Common Brittonic|Brittonic]] predecessor, named with the element ''*gabro-'', 'goat' (cf. [[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''gafr''), may underlie the name.<ref name="pnnd">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924028042996|last1=Mawer |first1=Allen |title=The Place-names of Northumberland and Durham |publisher=CUP Archive|date=1920 |location=Cambridge |page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028042996/page/n135 92] }}</ref> Gateshead might have been the [[Roman-British]] fort of ''Gabrosentum''.<ref name="pnnd" />