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Human settlement in England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lynemouth is a village in Northumberland, England, 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Ashington, close to the village of Ellington to the north west. It was built close to coal mines, including Lynemouth Colliery.
Lynemouth | |
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![]() Market Square, Lynemouth | |
Location within Northumberland | |
Population | 1,858 (2011 census)[1] |
OS grid reference | NZ295915 |
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Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MORPETH |
Postcode district | NE61 |
Police | Northumbria |
Fire | Northumberland |
Ambulance | North East |
UK Parliament | |
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[3] book In Flagrante (1988) by Chris Killip shows the work and life of the seacoalers;[4] more were published in 2011 in the book Seacoal.[n 1]
To the south of the village is the former Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter, now closed, and Lynemouth Power Station.
Lynemouth electoral ward stretches north along the coast to Craster, with a population at the 2011 Census of 4,842.[5]
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Parish of Lynemouth.
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The village can be seen in the 2000 film Billy Elliot. Lynemouth Cemetery doubles as Everington Cemetery, in which Elliot's mother is buried.[8] The colliery, demolished in 2005, can be seen in scenes filmed at the cemetery.