Lynemouth is a village in Northumberland, England. It is 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Ashington, and is close to the village of Ellington, which is to the north west. The village was built close to coal mines.Lynemouth and the surrounding industrial area played an important role in the 1985 feature-length docudrama Seacoal about the seacoalers, who made a living from collecting waste coal from the beach.