Dawdon is a former pit community to the south of Seaham, County Durham, England.

An area of the beach near Dawdon (known locally as "the Blast", a former waste coal dumping site) was used in the opening scenes of the science fiction film Alien 3.

[2] The township of Dawdon (commonly spelled Dawden on old records and maps) was in the parish of Dalton-le-Dale[3] and consisted of an area of 1,088 acres between the Durham coast and the townships of Seaham, Dalton-le-Dale and Cold Hesledon.

[7] Like the rest of the United Kingdom, Dawdon has a temperate climate.

[9] The table below gives the average temperature and rainfall figures taken between 1971 and 2000 at the Met Office weather station in Durham: A new pit was created at Dawdon and new shafts sunk in the rocky coastal area of Noses Point, near Dawdon beginning in 1900.