Hornsea is a tiny seaside resort, community as well as civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The negotiation days to at least the early middle ages duration. The community was expanded in the Victorian era with the resulting the Hull and Hornsea Railway in 1864. The civil parish includes Hornsea community; the all-natural lake, Hornsea Mere; in addition to the shed or deserted towns of Hornsea Beck, Northorpe and Southorpe. Structures of note with the church consist of the middle ages parish church of St Nicholas, Bettison's Recklessness, Hornsea Mere and also the sea front promenade. The Hull and Hornsea Railway opened 1864, and also was closed in 1964-- the primary train station, Hornsea Town, is still extant, as well as the former trackbed kinds the section of the Trans Pennine Path to Hull. In the First World War the Mere was briefly the website of RNAS Hornsea, a seaplane base. Throughout the Second World War the town and also beach was heavily strengthened versus invasion. Hornsea Pottery was developed in Hornsea c.? 1950 and also enclosed 2000. Modern Hornsea still works as a coastal hotel, and has huge campers sites to the north and south.