Seahouses

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]

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.

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.

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

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