Hotels Hunstanton

Hotels in Hunstanton are often needed for tourists who need short term accommodation. They may want to see the culture, history, tourist attractions, society and scenery of the seaside town. Some may want to stay at large or small hotels. Some tourists may want to stay at hotels that have a good reputation and a good status. Some may want to stay hotels that are luxury or cheap. You may want to have bathroom in your hotel room, so you can have a bath in the The Wash region.

Hotels in the town of Hunstanton are often required by tourists who require short term accommodation. Some may want to see the culture, the history and society of the town. Some tourists may want to use the town as a base to explore The Wash. Some may want to stay at hotels that have good access to parking and to entertainment.

Hunstanton, also known colloquially to locals as Sunny Hunny, is a seaside town in Norfolk, England, facing The Wash.

Hunstanton is also well-known for its stratified, fossiliferous cliffs: lower reddish limestone, known as red chalk, was laid down during the Lower Cretaceous era and is topped by a white chalk layer from the Upper Cretaceous era.

Although summer crowds tend to flock to Hunstanton in smaller numbers now than was evidenced in the 1980s, postcards of the promenade and beach, the popularity of the town as a tourist destination for day trippers.

The description of Hunstanton as an "east coast" town makes it unique as the only east coast seaside resort in England where the sun can be seen to set over the sea.

The town is of prehistoric origin. In 1970, evidence of Neolithic settlement was found.

The original, pre-Le Strange settlementof Hunstanton is now known as Old Hunstanton, adjoining the north of the larger resort. The quiet character of Old Hunstanton remains distinct from and complements that of its busy sibling, with clifftop walks past a disused lighthouse. The lighthouse is privately owned (and currently for sale) and the ruins of St. Edmund's Chapel, built in 1272. The River Hun runs to the coast just to the east of Old Hunstanton.

Hunstanton railway station used to offer services to King's Lynn but closed in 1969.

In 1846, Henry Styleman Le Strange (1815-1862) a local landowner, decided that he would like to turn Hunstanton into a holiday resort. Many new buildings were built, mostly in warm Norfolk carrstone. Following the death of Henry Le Strange, the project was successfully continued by his son. Hunstanton today is home to a fairground, aquarium and seal sanctuary, leisure pool, theatre, large caravan parks with amenities (Searle's Holiday Park opened in 1936), a number of amusement arcades and a long promenade. In good weather, boats run by Searle's carry tourists out to view grey seals that have colonised sand bars in The Wash and to the north of Norfolk. The centrepiece of the town is a large sloping green, which runs from one end of the high street to the promenade. The town also boasted a Victorian pier. However, the pier pavilion was destroyed by fire in 1939, the pier was damaged by fire again in the 1950s, before almost the entire structure was washed away by a fierce storm in 1978.

The town is notable for several stately Victorian squares, perhaps most notably Boston Square, which enjoys fine views across The Wash to Boston, Lincolnshire. On a fine day, one can see Boston Stump.

The countryside surrounding Hunstanton is hillier than most of Norfolk and is sparsely populated, the only nearby large settlement being King's Lynn, 12 miles to the south.

The Wash is the square-mouthed estuary on the northwest margin of East Anglia on the east coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire. It is among the largest estuaries in the UK. It is fed by the Rivers Witham, Welland, Nene and Great Ouse. he Wash shows as a large indentation in the coastline of the map of eastern England, separating the curved coast of East Anglia from Lincolnshire. It is formed by a large bay with three roughly straight sides meeting at right angles, each about 25 kilometres (15 miles) in length. The eastern coast of the Wash is entirely within Norfolk, and extends from Hunstanton in the north to the mouth of the River Great Ouse at King's Lynn in the south. The opposing coast, which is roughly parallel to the east coast, runs from Gibraltar Point to the mouth of the River Welland, all within Lincolnshire. The southern coast runs roughly northwest-southeast, connects these two river mouths, and is punctuated by the mouth of a third river, the River Nene.

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