Withernsea is a seaside hotel community and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and also develops the prime focus for a larger community of tiny towns in Holderness. Its most well-known site is the white inland lighthouse, rising around 127 feet (39 m) over Hull Road. The lighthouse-- no longer active-- now houses a museum to 1950s starlet Kay Kendall, who was born in the town. The Prime Meridian goes across the coast to the north-west of Withernsea. According to the 2011 UK census, Withernsea parish had a population of 6,159, a boost on the 2001 UK census figure of 5,980. Like many seaside resorts, Withernsea has a large boardwalk which gets to north and also southern from Pier Towers, the historical entry to the pier, built in 1877 at a price of £12,000. The pier was initially 399 backyards (365 metres) long, but was gradually decreased in length through several impacts by neighborhood ships, starting with the Saffron in 1880 prior to the collision by an unrevealed ship in 1888, once more by a Grimsby angling boat and once more by the Henry Parr in 1893, leaving the once grand pier with a plain 50 feet (15 metres) of harmed timber and also steel, which was removed in 1903. The Pier Towers have been refurbished.