North Sunderland, Northumberland
Historical Description
Sunderland, North, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Bamburgh parish, Northumberland. The village stands on the coast, 4 miles ENE of Chathill railway station, and 8½ ESE of Belford. It is a small seaport and a seat of fisheries, and has a post and money order office under Chathill (R.S.O.); telegraph office, Seahouses. The township contains the village of Seahouses, and comprises 1164 acres of land and 135 of water; population, 828. There is a parish council which consists of seven members. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1843, and comprises the townships of North Sunderland, Elford, and Fleetham. Population, 945. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle-on-Tyne; net value, £275 with residence. Patrons, the trustees of Bishop Lord Crewe. The church was built in 1833, is in the Norman style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisle, and a belfry. There are an English Presbyterian chapel, a cemetery formed in 1886, and a police station. At Seahouses are a harbour opened in 1889, a Primitive Methodist chapel erected in 1875, and a station of the National Lifeboat Institution.
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 | Bambrough | |
| Poor Law union | Belford | |
| Ward | Bambrough |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for North Sunderland from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sunderland, North)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of North Sunderland 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: