Seahouses

Infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Seahouses
population =
shire_district= Berwick-upon-Tweed
region = North East England
shire_county = Northumberland
constituency_westminster= Berwick-upon-Tweed
post_town= SEAHOUSES
postcode_district = NE68
postcode_area= NE
dial_code= 01665
civil_parish= North Sunderland
os_grid_reference= NU2132
latitude= 55.583
longitude= -1.655

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

Seahouses is a regional honeypot, attracting 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".

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 carpark and the trackbed between village and North Sunderland is a public footpath.

References

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

External links

* [http://www.seahouses.org/ Seahouses website]
* [http://www.northumberland-cam.com/seahouses/index.htm Seahouses Photos]
* [http://www.ukattraction.com/northumbria/seahouses.html Seahouses Tourist Attractions]
* [http://gallery.beautifulengland.net/main.php?g2_itemId=15295 Photographs of Seahouses]