Hunstanton, Norfolk - multivew - postcard 1964

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Hunstanton, Norfolk - The Greensward / Cliff Gardens / The Beach and Pier / The Beach
• Publisher:  none given but probably Photo Precision (PLC13753)
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  half d. orange + 2x 1d blue Wilding
• Postmark(s):  Hunstanton 1964
• Sent to:  Cambridge
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Hunstanton (local ⁱ/'h?nst?n/ HUN-st?n), known colloquially as 'Sunny Hunny', is a seaside town (population 4,961^[1]) in Norfolk, England, facing the Wash.

Hunstanton is an east coast town but faces west and is one of the few places on the east coast in England where the sun can be seen to set over the sea.

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

Hunstanton is a 19th-century resort town, initially known as New Hunstanton so distinguished from the adjacent old village from which it took its name. The new town long ago eclipsed the village in scale and population.

The original settlement of Hunstanton is now known as Old Hunstanton, probably taking its name from the River Hun which runs to the coast just to the east of Old Hunstanton. It is also said that the name Hunstanton originated from the word ""Honeystone"", a reference to the local red Carr stone. The river begins in the grounds of Old Hunstanton Park which surrounds the old moated hall, the ancestral home of the Le Strange family. Old Hunstanton village is of prehistoric origin and is situated near to the head of Peddars Way. In 1970, evidence of Neolithic settlement was found. The quiet character of Old Hunstanton remains distinct from and complements that of its busy sibling, with clifftop walks past a privately owned redundant lighthouse and the ruins of St. Edmund's Chapel, built in 1272.

In 1846, Henry Styleman Le Strange (1815–1862),^[2] decided to develop the area south of Old Hunstanton as a sea bathing resort. He persuaded a group of like-minded investors to fund the construction of a railway line from King's Lynn to the town: the railway would bring tourists and visitors to Hunstanton. It was a great success (the Lynn & Hunstanton Railway became one of the most consistently profitable railway companies in the country). In 1861, Le Strange, as the principal landowner, became a director of the railway company and by 1862 the line had been built. Hunstanton was ready to take off commercially. In the same year Le Strange died at the age of forty seven, and it was left to his son Hamon to reap the rewards of his efforts.

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=norfolk

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period=1945 - present

postage condition=posted