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Earsdon Front Street with The Cannon public house |
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Earsdon
Earsdon shown within Tyne and Wear |
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| OS grid reference | NZ322725 |
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| Metropolitan borough | North Tyneside |
| Metropolitan county | Tyne and Wear |
| Region | North East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WHITLEY BAY |
| Postcode district | NE25 |
| Dialling code | 0191 |
| Police | Northumbria |
| Fire | Tyne and Wear |
| Ambulance | North East |
| EU Parliament | North East England |
| List of places: UK • England • Tyne and Wear | |
Earsdon is a historical village in the borough of North Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It sits on the border of Northumberland to which is was historically part of, and is approximately two miles from Whitley Bay.
The graveyard of St Alban's Anglican church is home to 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 a second memorial in the village which is for those who died in the World Wars.
The village's second church, Earsdon Methodist Chapel, is located within the confines of a former quarry.
Earsdon was an urban district from 1894 to 1935, consisting of the four parishes of Earsdon, Backworth, Holywell, and Murton. It was then split three ways between Seaton Valley, Tynemouth, and Whitley and Monkseaton, with Seaton Valley taking the bulk of the population of both the district and Earsdon parish.
There is a disused coal colliery situated in the outskirts of the village, including the Fenwick Heap. After closing, the heap spontaneously combusted underground and was burning internally until work started to reclaim the land. In 2009 the reclamation work started on the land, and it was completed in September 2010.
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.