Seaham, formerly
Seaham Harbour, is a small town in
County Durham, situated south of
Sunderland and 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 one of the 20 oldest surviving churches in the UK. Seaham is currently twinned with the German town of
Gerlingen.