Hornsea is a little seaside resort, community as well as civil church in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The settlement days to at least the very early medieval duration. The community was increased in the Victorian age with the resulting the Hull and Hornsea Railway in 1864. The civil parish includes Hornsea town; the natural lake, Hornsea Mere; in addition to the shed or deserted towns of Hornsea Beck, Northorpe as well as Southorpe. Structures of note with the parish include the medieval parish church of St Nicholas, Bettison's Folly, Hornsea Mere and also the sea front promenade. The Hull and Hornsea Railway opened up 1864, as well as was closed in 1964-- the primary railway station, Hornsea Community, is still extant, as well as the former trackbed forms the section 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 and beach was heavily fortified versus intrusion. Hornsea Pottery was developed in Hornsea c.? 1950 as well as closed in 2000. Modern Hornsea still operates as a coastal hotel, and has huge caravan sites to the north as well as southern.