It was built close to coal mines, including Lynemouth Colliery.

Lynemouth and the surrounding industrial area featured in the 1985 docudrama Seacoal about the seacoalers who made a living from collecting waste coal from the beach.

A series of photographs in the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award–winning[3] book In Flagrante (1988) by Chris Killip shows the work and life of the seacoalers;[4] more were published in 2011 in the book Seacoal.

Lynemouth electoral ward stretches north along the coast to Craster, with a population at the 2011 Census of 4,842.

[5] The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Parish of Lynemouth.