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unusual facts about North Sunderland


Grace Darling

She and her father William determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses (then North Sunderland), so they took a rowing boat (a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile.



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Seahouses

The site of Seahouses station is now the town carpark and the trackbed between village and North Sunderland is a public footpath.