Earsdon

Earsdon
Northumberland
Earsdon Front Street with The Cannon public house
Location
Grid reference:	NZ322725
Location:	55°2’47"N, 1°29’43"W
Data
Post town:	Whitley Bay
Postcode:	NE25
Dialling code:	0191
Local Government
Council:	North Tyneside

Earsdon is a village in eastern Northumberland, inland and approximately two miles from Whitley Bay. The village had a recorded population of 613 in 2011.

There is a disused coal mine works a short distance from the village, including the Fenwick Heap. After closure, the heap spontaneously combusted underground and was burning internally until work started to reclaim the land. The reclamation work started in 2009 and was completed in September 2010.

Churches

The village has two churches:

• Church of England: St Alban's
• Methodist: Earsdon Methodist Chapel (located within a former quarry)

The graveyard of St Alban's has a memorial to the 204 men and boys killed in the Hartley Colliery Disaster of 1862, at the nearby village of New Hartley. There is also a war memorial in the village.

In fiction

• The children's television series Supergran was filmed in part in the village.
• The Beehive Inn near Earsdon was used for the filming of the 1976 film The Likely Lads.

Gallery

• 
  Church of St Alban
• 
  Monument to Hartley Pit Disaster in St Alban's churchyard

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Earsdon)

• Information on Earsdon  from GENUKI