📌 Seahouses, Northumberland
★★
Seahouses is the down-to-earth alternative to nearby Bamburgh, unashamedly catering to the holidaying masses with amusement arcade, ice cream parlour, multiple caravan parks and perhaps the highest fish-and-chip shop to population ratio in Northumberland (I can personally recommend a takeaway from the Neptune Fish Restaurant). There’s also a bustling harbour with boat trips to the Farne Islands, and a short but attractive stretch of coastline running south around North Sunderland Point. Visit them all on this quick circuit, with nesting kittiwakes in late spring / early summer.
📷 Chronological photo guide
🌍 Location
📌 Start / finish on the B1340 in Seahouses village centre
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NU 220321
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.581751,-1.653250
🚌 Bus to Seahouses
🚗 Car parks (charge) – or free parking 0.5 mi into the route on King Street (B1340)
📝 Key info
▶ 3 km / 2 mi | ▲ 30 m | ⌛ 1-1.5 hr
Features: 🏠 Seahouses village, coastline & harbour
⬤ Easy | Coast paths, golf courses & pavements. One short section of bouldery shoreline close to the high tide mark (not recommended in stormy weather), or adjacent beach if tide is low.
Download file for GPS➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – King Street (B1340) – south side of lakes at Seahouses Golf Club – harbour via coast path – start
🥾 On our last visit
Wildlife: Eider ducks, ringed plover, redshank, knot, oystercatchers, starlings, nesting kittiwakes.
Weather: Sunny, temperature in mid teens with a chilly onshore breeze.
May 2023
