The River Team is a tributary of the River Tyne in Gateshead, England. A tributary is a Stream or River which flows into a mainstem (or parent river The River Tyne is a River in England. It is formed by the confluence of two rivers the North Tyne and the South Tyne. Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne, opposite Newcastle upon Tyne.
Its source is near Annfield Plain, where it is known as Kyo Burn. Annfield Plain is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated on a plateau between the towns of Stanley, 4 km (2 Then changing its name again to Causey Burn as it flows underneath the famous Causey Arch. The Causey Arch is a bridge near Stanley in County Durham. It is the world’s oldest surviving railway bridge It then flows past Beamish Museum in County Durham (where it is known as Beamish Burn) then crosses the border into Gateshead flowing through Lamesley. Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England. It lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne, opposite Newcastle upon Tyne. Lamesley is a village and Civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. Continuing on into the Team Valley, the river flows through a culvert in the middle of the roundabout underneath the A1 road, it then continues through the Team Valley Trading Estate through a covered culvert, before emerging to the surface half way along. Team Valley is traditionally the heavy industrial area of Gateshead in Tyne and Wear, England.
It then flows through the site of the 1990 National Garden Festival, before finally discharging into the River Tyne in Dunston. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) The National Garden Festivals were part of the cultural regeneration of large areas of derelict land in Britain's Industrial districts during the 1980s and early 1990s The River Tyne is a River in England. It is formed by the confluence of two rivers the North Tyne and the South Tyne. This area is known as Teams, after the river.
The River Team has long been regarded as one of the most polluted rivers in the area due to the discharges from Sewage works near Lamesley and heavy industry in the Team Valley. However considerable improvements have now been made and the river is relatively clean.
Prior to the last Ice Age, the lower part of the River Team actually formed the lower part of the River Wear, with a combined Tyne-Wear river continuing to the coast from Dunston. An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the Temperature of the Earth 's surface and atmosphere resulting in an expansion of continental Ice sheets The River Wear (wɪə("wee-er" is a river in North East England, rising in the Pennines and flowing eastwards mostly through County Durham, The ice diverted the River Wear to its current course towards the coast at Sunderland, with the smaller River Team flowing along its former course towards the River Tyne. Sunderland (, or /ˈsʌn(dlən/ is a City in Tyne and Wear, England.