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Radcliffe is a settlement in the county of Northumberland, England. It is located 1 km south of the town of Amble. The population is approximately 15 people.
History
Radcliffe was originally a mining community, once home to over 700 people. A colliery operated there until 1892, when a fault in the seam, then fire and flooding, made coal extraction uneconomical. New pit shafts were sunk nearby at Newburgh and later at Hauxley, but flooding remained a problem.
Through much of the 19th and early to mid-20th century, the settlement was called "Radcliffe Terrace, Hauxley", giving the erroneous impression that it was part of Hauxley (or another local town); despite this, it was an independent (and somewhat isolated) settlement. The first word can be found spelled with many variations, even relatively recently: Ratliff, Radcliffe, Ratcliffe, Ratcliff, and Radcliff (and others).
By the mid-twentieth century, the surviving pits in this area were becoming uneconomical, especially when compared to extraction using opencast mining techniques. The last shift to work underground at Radcliffe was on 2 February 1962.
On 15 February 1942, a German aeroplane chased by an RAF fighter plane dropped a bomb dropped on Radcliffe. Three houses, a school, and a church were demolished. Three members of the Craiggs' extended family were killed and several others were injured. Casualties would have been much higher if the church service had not finished shortly before and the congregation dispersed.