Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index South Shields is a town in South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the south bank of the mouth of the River Tyne. It has a population of about 90,000, and is on the Tyne and Wear Metro. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.