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Hornsea is a small seaside resort

Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a resort located on the coast. Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort....
town

Town

A town is a type of human settlement ranging from a few to several thousand inhabitants, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas; the precise meaning varies between countries and is not always a matter of legal definition....
and civil parish

Civil parish

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a civil parish is usually the lowest unit of local government, below district and county councils....
in the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan district with unitary authority status, and is a ceremonial counties of England of England....
, England

England

Trans Pennine Trail

United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th Census in the United Kingdom....
Hornsea parish had a population of 8,243. It is well known for its former pottery

Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. Major types of pottery include earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain. The places where such wares are made are called potteries....
factory, which closed in 2000, Hornsea Pottery

Hornsea Pottery

Hornsea Pottery was a pottery factory in Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire founded by brothers Colin Rawson and Desmond Rawson with initial funding from a local business man, Philip Clappison 1949....
. Along with exhibits of fascinating local history, the largest display of Hornsea Pottery

Hornsea Pottery

Hornsea Pottery was a pottery factory in Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire founded by brothers Colin Rawson and Desmond Rawson with initial funding from a local business man, Philip Clappison 1949....
in the world can be seen at the Hornsea Museum, which is located in Newbegin, the main street of Hornsea.

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Hornsea is a small seaside resort

Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a resort located on the coast. Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort....
town

Town

Civil parish

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a civil parish is usually the lowest unit of local government, below district and county councils....
in the East Riding of Yorkshire

East Riding of Yorkshire

The East Riding of Yorkshire, or simply East Yorkshire is a non-metropolitan district with unitary authority status, and is a ceremonial counties of England of England....
, England

England

Trans Pennine Trail

United Kingdom Census 2001

Pottery

Hornsea Pottery

Hornsea Pottery was a pottery factory in Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire founded by brothers Colin Rawson and Desmond Rawson with initial funding from a local business man, Philip Clappison 1949....
in the world can be seen at the Hornsea Museum, which is located in Newbegin, the main street of Hornsea. opposite stands the unique 'Folly

Bettisons Folly

Bettisons Folly is a tower in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is also referred to as Bettisons Tower and was built some time between 1829 and 1853 by William Bettison....
', currently its future is in doubt, built by local business man Bettison in the 19th century, it contains the only fully working retractable flag pole in the country. It has many coastal defences such as sea walls, groynes and beach nourishment. Despite these defences, Hornsea's primarily cliff-based shoreline is eroding at one of the fastest-known rates in Europe.

Like the larger resorts in the area, (such as Withernsea

Withernsea

Withernsea is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and forms the focal point for a wider community of small villages in Holderness....
, Bridlington

Bridlington

Bridlington is a town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It has a population of over 33,000 and is twinned with Millau, France and Bad Salzuflen, Germany....
, Filey

Filey

Filey is a small town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Scarborough and is located between Scarborough, North Yorkshire and Bridlington on the North Sea coast....
and Scarborough), the town has a promenade with shops selling fish and chips

Fish and chips

Fish and chips is a popular take-away food which originated in the United Kingdom. It consists of deep-fried fish in Batter or breadcrumbs with French fried potatoes potatoes....
, ice cream

Ice cream

Ice cream or ice-cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, combined with fruits or other ingredients....
, bucket and spade

Bucket and spade

Bucket and spade sets are traditional United Kingdom coast paraphernalia that can be bought cheaply from any beachside vendor. They usually consist of a small plastic bucket with a handle and a small shovel, both of which can be decorated with a variety of bright colours and patterns....
sets and other traditional seaside paraphernalia. Like many seaside resorts of yesteryear its facilities have been allowed to deteriorate.

Hornsea Mere

Hornsea Mere

Hornsea Mere is generally described as the largest natural freshwater lake in Yorkshireand lies to the west of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire....
, a large lake

Lake

A lake is a terrain feature , a body of liquid on the surface of a world that is localized to the bottom of basin and moves slowly if it moves at all....
and bird

Bird

Birds are wing, Bipedalismal, endothermic , vertebrate animals that lay egg . There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates....
sanctuary, lies near the town and is popular for sailing

Sailing

Sailing is the art of controlling a boat with large pieces of canvas cloth called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and dagger or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction and speed of a boat....
. Hornsea Mere

Hornsea Mere

Hornsea Mere is generally described as the largest natural freshwater lake in Yorkshireand lies to the west of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire....
is a natural lake (not manmade) which was created by glacial movement during the Ice Age

Ice age

The general term "ice age" or, more precisely, "glacial age" denotes a geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in an expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers....
. From 1854 to 1964 Hornsea had a railway station on the Hull and Hornsea Railway

Hull and Hornsea Railway

|}The Hull and Hornsea Railway was a branch line in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which connected the city of Kingston upon Hull with the seaside holiday resort of Hornsea....
which connected it to Hull

Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull , almost invariably referred to as Hull, is a City status in the United Kingdom and unitary authority area in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England....
. This line was opened by Joseph Armitage Wade, whose house once stood where Hornsea School and Language College

Hornsea School and Language College

Hornsea School and Language College is situated in the small seaside town of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is a secondary comprehensive and takes pupils from Hornsea and the surrounding area....
stands today. A cottage close to the school was once visited regularly by Lawrence of Arabia; and Winston Churchill visited, and was photographed in, another house nearby. Another famous visitor to the town was the Victorian novelist Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bront? was a United Kingdom novelist, the eldest of the three famous Bront? sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature....
. After the railway was recommended for closure by Dr Richard Beeching

Richard Beeching

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching , commonly known as Doctor Beeching, was chairman of British Railways and a physicist and engineer. He became infamous in Britain in the early-1960s for his report "The Reshaping of British Railways", popularly known as the Beeching Axe, which led to far-reaching changes in the railway network....
(see British Rail

British Rail

British Railways , which later traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the Rail transport in Great Britain from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until Privatisation of British Rail in stages from 1994 to 1997....
) in his report The Reshaping of British Railways, the trackbed became the final lap of the Trans Pennine Trail

Trans Pennine Trail

The Trans Pennine Trail is a long distance path in the north of England, running largely along disused railway lines and towpath, entirely on surface paths and only gentle gradients....
. The old railway line is now a well-maintained walking and cycling (bicycles only) trail. It is a very pleasant trail with appropriate stopping points for picnic lunches. On the southern edge of Hornsea (near the site of Hornsea Pottery, closed 2000) is a large shopping centre known as Hornsea Freeport, which was the first shopping centre of its kind in this part of the north-east, adapting the original UK theme park set up by Hornsea Pottery in its heyday.

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