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Seahouses

Village in Northumberland, England

Summary

Village in Northumberland, England

Field	Value
country	England
type	Village
official_name	Seahouses
static_image_name	Seahouses town centre looking west to Main Street - geograph.org.uk - 1379437.jpg
static_image_caption	Seahouses
population	1,803
unitary_england	Northumberland
lieutenancy_england	Northumberland
region	North East England
constituency_westminster	North Northumberland
post_town	SEAHOUSES
postcode_district	NE68
postcode_area	NE
dial_code	01665
civil_parish	North Sunderland
os_grid_reference	NU2232
coordinates
label_position	top

Seahouses is a large village on the Northumberland coast in England. It is about 20 km north of Alnwick, within the Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Attraction

Seahouses attracts many visitors, mainly from the north east of England. National and international tourists also visit Seahouses while visiting the Northumberland National Park, the 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 visitor packages. These may include landing on at least one Farne, seeing seals and seabirds, 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 and has since developed into a broader cultural celebration attracting visitors from across the region.{{cite web |access-date=31 January 2026

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.{{cite book

Governance

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

Seahouses is in the archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the Diocese of Newcastle.

References

Trewin, Carol. (2005). "Gourmet Cornwall". Alison Hodge Publishers.

Wikipedia Source

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