Seaham Harbour, a seaport in the county of Durham, 6 miles S. of Sunderland. Founded in 1828 by the Marquis of Londonderry, it communicates by railway with neighbouring collieries, and has every facility in the way of docks and quays for the shipment of coal. There are also bottle-works, blast-furnaces, an iron-foundry, and chemical works, a seamen's infirmary (1849), and the Londonderry literary institute (1853). Pop. (1851) 3538; (1891) 8856.
Seaham Harbour
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 276
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