Withernsea is a seaside hotel community as well as civil church in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, as well as creates the prime focus for a bigger community of small villages in Holderness. Its most famous site is the white inland lighthouse, climbing around 127 feet (39 m) above Hull Road. The lighthouse-- no more energetic-- now houses a museum to 1950s starlet Kay Kendall, that was birthed 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 vast boardwalk which gets to north and also south from Pier Towers, the historic entry to the pier, constructed in 1877 at a cost of £12,000. The pier was originally 399 lawns (365 metres) long, yet was progressively decreased in length via numerous impacts by local ships, beginning with the Saffron in 1880 before the collision by an unrevealed ship in 1888, once more by a Grimsby fishing boat and also again by the Henry Parr in 1893, leaving the once grand pier with a simple 50 feet (15 metres) of damaged timber as well as steel, which was removed in 1903. The Pier Towers have actually been refurbished.