Lynemouth

Also known as Lynemouth, Northumberland

Lynemouth is a village in Northumberland, England, northeast of Ashington, close to the village of Ellington to the north west. It was built close to coal mines, including Lynemouth Colliery.

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Place details

Locality: Cresswell
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 1,873
Timezone: Europe/London

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Key facts

UK place.country: England
UK place.official_name: Lynemouth
UK place.static_image_name: Market Square - geograph.org.uk - 1636492.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Market Square, Lynemouth
UK place.label_position: left
UK place.population: 1,858
UK place.population_ref: (2011 census)
UK place.region: North East England
UK place.civil_parish: Lynemouth
UK place.shire_county: Northumberland
UK place.constituency_westminster: North Northumberland
UK place.post_town: MORPETH
UK place.postcode_district: NE61
UK place.postcode_area: NE
UK place.os_grid_reference: NZ295915

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Wikidata facts

Population: 1858
Image: Market Square - geograph.org.uk - 1636492.jpg
Dialing code: 01670

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Commons category: Lynemouth
OS grid reference: NZ295915

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Lynemouth is a village in Northumberland, England, northeast of Ashington, close to the village of Ellington to the north west. It was built close to coal mines, including Lynemouth Colliery.

Lynemouth and the surrounding industrial area featured in the 1985 docudrama Seacoal about the seacoalers who made a living from collecting waste coal from the beach. A series of photographs in the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award–winning book In Flagrante (1988) by Chris Killip shows the work and life of the seacoalers; more were published in 2011 in the book Seacoal.