North Seaton, Northumberland
Historical Description
Seaton, North, a village and a township in Woodhom parish, Northumberland, on the coast, at the N side of the Wansbeck river's mouth, with a station on the Blyth and Tyne railway, 6½ miles E of Morpeth. There is a post and money order office at North Seaton Colliery, under Morpeth; telegraph office, Newbiggin-by-the Sea. Acreage, 1465, and 217 of tidal water and foreshore; population, 1996. There is an extensive colliery. North Seaton Hall is the chief residence. There are a chapel of ease and Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Northumberland | |
Civil parish | Woodhorn | |
Poor Law union | Morpeth | |
Ward | Morpeth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for North Seaton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Seaton, North)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of North Seaton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online: