Hornsea
Hornsea is a small seaside resort, town and civil church in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The settlement dates to at least the early medieval period. The town was expanded in the Victorian period with the resulting the Hull and Hornsea Railway in 1864. The civil parish includes Hornsea town; the natural lake, Hornsea Mere; as well as the shed or deserted villages of Hornsea Beck, Northorpe as well as Southorpe. Frameworks of note with the parish include the middle ages parish church of St Nicholas, Bettison's Folly, Hornsea Mere and the sea front boardwalk. The Hull and Hornsea Railway opened up 1864, and also was enclosed 1964-- the major railway station, Hornsea Town, is still extant, and also the former trackbed types the area of the Trans Pennine Route to Hull. In the First World War the Mere was briefly the website of RNAS Hornsea, a seaplane base. During the 2nd World War the town as well as coastline was greatly fortified versus invasion. Hornsea Ceramic was developed in Hornsea c.? 1950 and closed in 2000. Modern Hornsea still functions as a coastal hotel, as well as has large caravan sites to the north as well as south.