Seahouses
| Seahouses | |
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| Village | |
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| Population | 1,803 |
| OS grid reference | NU2232 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SEAHOUSES |
| Postcode district | NE68 |
| Dialling code | 01665 |
| Police | Northumbria |
| Fire | Northumberland |
| Ambulance | North East |
| UK Parliament | |
Seahouses is a large village on the North Northumberland coast in England. It is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of Alnwick, within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Attraction
[edit | edit source]Seahouses attracts many visitors, mainly from the north east area. However national and international tourists often come to Seahouses whilst visiting the Northumberland National Park, Northumberland Coast and the Farne Islands. Seahouses also has a working fishing port, which also serves the tourist trade, being the embarkation point for visits to the Farne Islands. From shops in the town and booths along the harbour, several boat companies operate, offering various packages which may include inter alia landing on at least one Farne, seeing seals and seabirds, and hearing a commentary on the islands and the Grace Darling story or scuba diving on the many Farne Islands wrecks. Grace Darling's brother is buried in the cemetery at North Sunderland. He died in 1903, aged 84. The current Seahouses lifeboat bears the name Grace Darling.
The Seahouses Festival is an annual cultural event which began in 1999 as a small sea shanty festival. After a significant European funding grant from the Leader+ programme, in 2005,[1] it has grown into a more broadly based cultural celebration.
There are claims that kippers were first created in Seahouses in the 1800s, and they are still produced locally to this day.[2]
Between 1898 and 1951, Seahouses was the north-eastern terminus of the North Sunderland Railway. Independent until its final closure, it formed a standard gauge rail link between the village and Chathill Station on the East Coast Main Line.[3] The site of Seahouses station is now the town car park and the trackbed between village and North Sunderland is a public footpath.
Governance
[edit | edit source]Seahouses is within the civil parish of North Sunderland and the Northumberland County Council electoral division of Bamburgh. The parliamentary constituency is North Northumberland, represented by David Smith MP of the Labour Party.
Religion
[edit | edit source]Seahouses is in the archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the Diocese of Newcastle.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Bradford Kames, a Site of Special Scientific Interest 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Seahouses
- Craster kipper
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=167692[permanent dead link]
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- ^ Wright, 1988
Sources
[edit | edit source]- Wright, A., (1988), The North Sunderland Railway, The Oakwood Press, Locomotion Papers No. 36, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
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- farne.co.uk Local information on Seahouses, North Sunderland and the Farne Islands
- Community website Archived 27 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine
- Seahouses official website
- Visit Northumberland
- Northumberland Communities (Accessed: 7 November 2008)
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