Lynemouth

Lynemouth

Lynemouth

Human settlement in England

For the settlement in Devon, see Lynmouth.
For the suburb of Lynmouth in New Plymouth, New Zealand, see Lynmouth, New Zealand.

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.

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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.

Governance

Lynemouth electoral ward stretches north along the coast to Craster, with a population at the 2011 Census of 4,842.[5]

Freedom of the Parish

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Parish of Lynemouth.

Individuals

  • Gillian Thompson: 4 May 2016.
  • Sarah Hannah "Sadie" Williamson: 4 May 2016.[6]
  • Milburn Irving Douglas: 10 May 2017. (Awarded Posthumously)[7]

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.

Notes

  1. [n 1]
    Chris Killip, Seacoal (Göttingen: Steidl, 2011; ISBN 3-86930-256-9).

References

  1. [1]
    "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  2. [2]
    "Lynemouth Parish Council". Lynemouth Parish Council. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  3. [3]
    "Chris Killip: Skinningrove: A film by Michael Almereyda", New York Review of Books, 22 July 2014. Accessed 27 November 2014.
  4. [4]
    Gerry Badger, Chris Killip (London: Phaidon, 2001; ISBN 0-7148-4028-9), pp. 72–89.
  5. [5]
    "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  6. [6]
    "Freedom accolades for Gillian and Sadie". Morpeth Herald. 19 June 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  7. [7]
    "Honorary Freemen". Lynemouth Parish Council. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  8. [8]
    "Dying for someone to take care of cemetery; Plea for landowners to clean up overgrown graveyard" - Evening Chronicle, 22 July 2008
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