Withernsea is a seaside resort community as well as civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, and forms the centerpiece for a bigger area of little villages in Holderness. Its most famous spots is the white inland lighthouse, rising around 127 feet (39 m) over Hull Road. The lighthouse-- no more active-- currently houses a museum to 1950s actress Kay Kendall, that was birthed in the town. The Prime Meridian crosses the coastline 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 number of 5,980. Like several seaside resorts, Withernsea has a wide promenade which reaches north as well as southern from Pier Towers, the historical entrance to the pier, integrated in 1877 at a price of £12,000. The pier was originally 399 backyards (365 metres) long, yet was slowly decreased in length through several influences by regional ships, beginning with the Saffron in 1880 prior to the accident by an unnamed ship in 1888, again by a Grimsby fishing watercraft and once more by the Henry Parr in 1893, leaving the once grand pier with a plain 50 feet (15 metres) of harmed timber as well as steel, which was eliminated in 1903. The Pier Towers have been reconditioned.