Northern Gas Board

Northern Gas Board
State-owned utility overview
Formed1 May 1949 (1949-05-01)
Dissolved1 January 1973 (1973-01-01)
TypeGas board
StatusDissolved
HeadquartersKillingworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

The Northern Gas Board was a state-owned utility area gas board providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in Durham, Northumberland and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and the North Riding of Yorkshire.

It was established on 1 May 1949 under the terms of the Gas Act 1948, and dissolved in 1973 when it became a region of the newly formed British Gas Corporation, British Gas Northern, as a result of the Gas Act 1972.