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Seahouses

Seahouses town centre looking west to Main Street - geograph.org.uk - 1379437.jpg
Seahouses


Seahouses is located in Northumberland

Seahouses

Seahouses



Location within Northumberland

Population 1,803 
OS grid reference NU2232
Civil parish
  • North Sunderland
Unitary authority
  • Northumberland
Ceremonial county
  • Northumberland
Region
  • North East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SEAHOUSES
Postcode district NE68
Dialling code 01665
Police Northumbria
Fire Northumberland
Ambulance North East

EU Parliament North East England
UK Parliament
  • Berwick-upon-Tweed


List of places

UK

England

Northumberland


55°34′59″N 1°39′18″W / 55.583°N 1.655°W / 55.583; -1.655Coordinates: 55°34′59″N 1°39′18″W / 55.583°N 1.655°W / 55.583; -1.655

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.




Contents






  • 1 Attraction


  • 2 See also


  • 3 References


  • 4 Sources


  • 5 External links





Attraction


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 Farnes 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.




The fish processing factory in Seahouses is one of the places where the practice of kippering herrings is said to have originated


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 (Wright, 1988). The site of Seahouses station is now the town car park and the trackbed between village and North Sunderland is a public footpath.



See also



  • Bradford Kames, a Site of Special Scientific Interest 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of Seahouses


References





  1. ^ [1][permanent dead link]


  2. ^ Trewin, Carol (2005) Gourmet Cornwall Page 51, Alison Hodge Publishers. .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
    ISBN 9780906720394.





Sources


  • Wright, A., (1988), The North Sunderland Railway, The Oakwood Press, Locomotion Papers No. 36,
    ISBN 0-85361-335-4


External links








  • farne.co.uk Local information on Seahouses, North Sunderland and the Farne Islands

  • Community website

  • Seahouses official website

  • Visit Northumberland


  • Northumberland Communities (Accessed: 7 November 2008)









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