With some of the country’s best beaches accessible within minutes, it’s easy to overlook the area’s excellent shopping facilities. In 2007 a new multi-million pound shopping complex opened, Byron Place, taking its name from the town’s most famous former resident, Lord Byron who married a local landowner’s daughter at Seaham Hall in 1815. This too has been transformed and is now a luxurious award-winning 5 star hotel and spa.
The secondary school, Seaham School of Technology, is used by the whole community with many clubs and activities taking place there outside of school hours.
For those needing to commute the options are excellent. The railway station operates trains to Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, Hexham and Carlisle to the North. To the south there is Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. The town’s close proximity to the A19 also ensures excellent transport links to the north and south throughout Wearside, Tyneside and Teesside.
