Hornsea
Hornsea is a tiny seaside resort, town as well as civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The settlement days to at least the early medieval period. The town was expanded in the Victorian era with the coming of the Hull and Hornsea Railway in 1864. The civil parish incorporates Hornsea town; the natural lake, Hornsea Mere; in addition to the shed or deserted villages of Hornsea Beck, Northorpe and Southorpe. Frameworks of note with the church consist of the medieval parish church of St Nicholas, Bettison's Folly, Hornsea Mere and the sea front boardwalk. The Hull and Hornsea Railway opened 1864, and was enclosed 1964-- the main train station, Hornsea Town, is still extant, and the former trackbed forms the area of the Trans Pennine Trail to Hull. In the First World War the Mere was quickly the site of RNAS Hornsea, a seaplane base. Throughout the 2nd World War the community and also beach was greatly strengthened against invasion. Hornsea Ceramic was developed in Hornsea c.? 1950 and also enclosed 2000. Modern Hornsea still operates as a coastal resort, and has big campers sites to the north and also southern.
