Editing Seahouses

{{Short description|Village in Northumberland, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| 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 County Council|Northumberland]]
| lieutenancy_england = [[Northumberland]]
| region = North East England
| constituency_westminster = [[North Northumberland (UK Parliament constituency)|North Northumberland]]
| post_town = SEAHOUSES
| postcode_district = NE68    
| postcode_area = NE      
| dial_code = 01665
| civil_parish = [[North Sunderland]]
| os_grid_reference = NU2232 
| coordinates = {{coord|55.583|-1.655|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| label_position = top
}}
'''Seahouses''' is a large village on the North [[Northumberland]] coast in [[England]]. It is about {{convert|20|km}} north of [[Alnwick]], within the [[Northumberland Coast National Landscape|Northumberland Coast]] Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

==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 [[Grey seal|seal]]s and [[seabird]]s, 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 [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution|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,<ref>http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=167692{{Dead link|date=January 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> it has grown into a more broadly based cultural celebration.

[[File:Kipperfactoryseahouses.jpg|thumb|left|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 [[kipper]]s were first created in Seahouses in the 1800s, and they are still produced locally to this day.<ref>{{cite book |last=Trewin |first=Carol |date=2005 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swU53UBC1LEC&dq=1843,+%22john+Woodger%22+kipper&pg=PA51 |title=Gourmet Cornwall |page=51 |publisher=Alison Hodge Publishers |isbn=9780906720394}}</ref>

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 railway station|Chathill Station]] on the [[East Coast Main Line]].<ref>Wright, 1988</ref> The site of [[Seahouses railway station|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 (UK Parliament constituency)|North Northumberland]], represented by [[David Smith (British Labour politician)|David Smith MP]] of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].

==Religion==
Seahouses is in the [[Archdeacon of Lindisfarne|archdeaconry of Lindisfarne]], in the [[Diocese of Newcastle]].

==See also==
*[[Bradford Kames]], a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]] {{convert|3.5|mi}} west of Seahouses
*[[Craster kipper]]

==References==
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==Sources==
* Wright, A., (1988), ''The North Sunderland Railway'', The Oakwood Press, Locomotion Papers No. 36, {{ISBN|0-85361-335-4}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Seahouses}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20141008184635/http://www.farne.co.uk/ farne.co.uk] Local information on Seahouses, North Sunderland and the Farne Islands
* [http://www.seahouseswebsite.co.uk Community website]
* [http://www.seahouses.org/ Seahouses official website]
* [http://www.visitnorthumberland.com Visit Northumberland]
* [http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Seahouses.htm Northumberland Communities] (Accessed: 7 November 2008) 	

{{Coastal settlements
|place         = Northumberland
|settlement    = Seahouses
|anticlockwise = [[Bamburgh]]
|clockwise     = [[Beadnell]]
}}

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[[Category:Villages in Northumberland]]
[[Category:Populated coastal places in Northumberland]]