Lynemouth is a village in

Northumberland Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey. It is bordered by land ...

, England, northeast of

Ashington Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, with a population of 27,864 at the 2011 Census. It was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is north of Newcastle upon Tyne, west of the A189 and bordered to the ...

, close to the village of

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to the north west. It was built close to

coal mine Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

s, including

Lynemouth Colliery Lynemouth Colliery was a coal mine in Lynemouth, Northumberland, England. It was in operation between 1927 and 1994. According to Historic England Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is ...

. Lynemouth and the surrounding industrial area featured in the 1985

docudrama Docudrama (or documentary drama) is a genre of television and film, which features dramatized re-enactments of actual events. It is described as a hybrid of documentary and drama and "a fact-based representation of real event". Docudramas typic ...

Seacoal Seacoal (also written sea coal or sea-coal) may refer to: * Coal that washes up on the seashore ** ''Seacoal'' (film), a 1985 feature film depicting the lives of the seacoaling community of Lynemouth, Northumberland * ''(Historical sense of the t ...

'' about the seacoalers who made a living from collecting

waste coal Coal refuse (also described as coal waste, rock, slag, coal tailings, waste material, rock bank, culm, boney, or gob) is the material left over from coal mining, usually as tailings piles or spoil tips. For every tonne of hard coal generated by mi ...

from the beach. A series of photographs in the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award–winning book ''In Flagrante'' (1988) by Chris Killip shows the work and life of the seacoalers; more were published in 2011 in the book ''Seacoal''.Chris Killip, ''Seacoal'' (Göttingen: Steidl, 2011; ). To the south of the village is the former

Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter The Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter is a mothballed industrial facility near Ashington, Northumberland, on the coast of North East England, south of the village of Lynemouth. The smelter is owned by the Canadian aluminium company Alcan, whic ...

, now closed, and Lynemouth Power Station.

Governance

Lynemouth

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stretches north along the coast to Craster, with a population at the 2011 Census of 4,842.

Freedom of the Parish

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

Individuals

Councillor A councillor is an elected representative for a local government council in some countries. Canada Due to the control that the provinces have over their municipal governments, terms that councillors serve vary from province to province. Unl ...

Gillian Thompson : 4 May 2016. * Mrs. Sarah Hannah "Sadie" Williamson : 4 May 2016. *

Alderman An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law. The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members ...

Milburn Irving Douglas: 10 May 2017. (Awarded Posthumously)

In popular culture

The village can be seen in the 2000 film ''

Billy Elliot ''Billy Elliot'' is a 2000 British coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall. Set in County Durham in North East England during the 1984–1985 miners' strike, the film is about a working-class boy w ...

''. Lynemouth Cemetery doubles as Everington Cemetery, in which Elliot's mother is buried."Dying for someone to take care of cemetery; Plea for landowners to clean up overgrown graveyard"
- ''Evening Chronicle'', 22 July 2008 The colliery, demolished in 2005, can be seen in scenes filmed at the cemetery.

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(accessed: 10 November 2008) Villages in Northumberland {{Northumberland-geo-stub