Hornsea is a little seaside resort, community and also civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The settlement dates to at the very least the early medieval duration. The town was increased in the Victorian age with the coming of the Hull and Hornsea Railway in 1864. The civil parish encompasses Hornsea community; the natural lake, Hornsea Mere; as well as the shed or deserted villages of Hornsea Beck, Northorpe and also Southorpe. Frameworks of note with the church consist of the middle ages parish church of St Nicholas, Bettison's Recklessness, Hornsea Mere as well as the sea front boardwalk. The Hull and Hornsea Railway opened 1864, and also was enclosed 1964-- the major train station, Hornsea Community, is still extant, and also the previous trackbed types the area of the Trans Pennine Route to Hull. In the First World War the Mere was briefly the website of RNAS Hornsea, a seaplane base. During the Second World War the town as well as coastline was greatly fortified versus invasion. Hornsea Ceramic was established in Hornsea c.? 1950 as well as closed in 2000. Modern Hornsea still operates as a seaside resort, as well as has big campers sites to the north and also southern.