Cresswell, Northumberland
| Cresswell | |
| Northumberland | |
|---|---|
 Cresswell church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NZ295935 |
| Location: | 55°14’6"N, 1°32’17"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 206 (2011) |
| Post town: | Morpeth |
| Postcode: | NE61 |
| Dialling code: | 01670 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Northumberland |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Berwick-upon-Tweed |
Cresswell is a village in Northumberland about four miles north of Ashington, on the North Sea coast.
This is a popular bird watching area with Cresswell pond and bird hide nearby and the Druridge Bay Country Park less than thre miles away.
The village has one ice cream shop which closes out of season. The village also has two caravan holiday home parks - Cresswell Towers and Golden Sands. Cresswell Towers takes its name from the old tower nearby.
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Looking east -
Looking west from the same vantage point. -
Cresswell Tower
Landmarks
Snab Point, 500 yards south of The Carrs, is a sheltered bay with the Alcan aluminium smelting plant on its south side. Embedded in the small cliffs of Snab Point are the remnants of fossilised trees. The beach area is littered with the remnants of fossilised wood and small seams of coal can be seen in the cliffs. Depending on the tides and wind, vast swathes of sea coal is washed up within the bay. The area was formed during the carboniferous period some 310 million years ago, when the current land mass is believed to have been more than a thousand miles south of its present position.
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Sea coal washed up at Snab Point. -
Fossilised tree remnants embedded in the cliff -
Fossilised wood.
See also
Outside links
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