Once-thriving seaside village is now ghost town with houses on market for £5k

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A YouTube explorer took a wander through the streets of Horden in Co Durham, which has been on the slide since the local mine was closed down.

A once-thriving seaside village has been on the slide for decades and now has houses for sale for as little as £5,000. Horden in Co Durham has become a ghost time in recent years after tourists stopped visiting and locals packed up and left.

He explained: “Horton is an ex-mining town. The coal mine here was sunk and opened in 1900 and operated all the way through the 20th century. At one point the mine boasted 4,000 workers. But the mine was shut down in 1987 and most of the workers and their loved ones left the area, rather than staying to find alternative work. The community struggled and people working in shops and other industries relying on the miners' custom then also had to go elsewhere.

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