Seahouses

Seahouses
Village
Seahouses
Seahouses is located in Northumberland
Seahouses
Seahouses
Location within Northumberland
Population1,803 
OS grid referenceNU2232
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSEAHOUSES
Postcode districtNE68
Dialling code01665
PoliceNorthumbria
FireNorthumberland
AmbulanceNorth East
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Northumberland
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 Northumberland coast in England. It is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) 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.[1]

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

There are local 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

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.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Seahouses Festival". Information Britain. Retrieved 31 January 2026.
  2. ^ Trewin, Carol (2005). Gourmet Cornwall. Alison Hodge Publishers. p. 51. ISBN 9780906720394.
  3. ^ Wright, A. (1988). The North Sunderland Railway. Locomotion Papers. The Oakwood Press. ISBN 0-85361-335-4.
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