About the town » Seaham, County Durham, England, Great Britain

Seaham, formerly Seaham Harbour, is a small town in County Durham, situated 6 miles south of Sunderland and 13 miles east of Durham. It has a small parish church, St Mary the Virgin, with a late 7th century Anglo Saxon nave resembling the church at Escomb in many respects. St Mary the Virgin is regarded as one of the 20 oldest surviving churches in the UK. Seaham is currently twinned with the German town, Gerlingen. The people of Seaham have strong historic ties to Sunderland.