Hunstanton

Hunstanton, a watering-place of Norfolk, on the Wash, 18 miles NE. of King's Lynn by a railway (1862). It has a broad beach of firm sand, and good bathing and sea-fishing, a pier, and a splendid Decorated church (c. 1330). Hunstanton Hall, dating from the Tudor period, but greatly injured by fire in 1853, was the seat of Sir Roger L'Estrange. A lighthouse (1840) lifts a fixed light to an altitude of 109 feet, and shows it for a distance of 16 miles. Pop., with Barrett Ringstead, 1725.