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Hunstanton

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Hunstanton is a seaside town in Norfolk, England. [1]

81 relations: A149 road, Alison and Peter Smithson, Aunt Agatha, Bill Alexander (director), Boston, Lincolnshire, British Geological Survey, Burnham Overy, Bypass (road), Carrstone, Cavalier, Chalk, Clara Dow, Cromer, Day-tripper, Deaf Havana, Dersingham, Diana, Princess of Wales, Early Cretaceous, Edward the Martyr, Edwardian era, Fools and Worthless Liars, George Grundy, George Medal, Gothic Revival architecture, Grey seal, Guy Le Strange, Hangover Square, Harbor seal, Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange, Hunstanton, Hunstanton Formation, Hunstanton Golf Club, Hunstanton railway station, Ingoldisthorpe, King's Lynn, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, King's Lynn railway station, L. P. Hartley, Late Cretaceous, Limestone, Lincolnshire, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lynx (bus company), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middle East, Money for Nothing (novel), Neolithic, Norfolk, North Sea flood of 1953, North West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency), ..., Old Hunstanton, Old Hunstanton Lighthouse, P. G. Wodehouse, Pamphleteer, Patrick Hamilton (writer), Peddars Way, Pier, Preparatory school (United Kingdom), Reis Leming, Richard Greer, Ridable miniature railway, River Hun, Robert Herring (RAF officer), Roger L'Estrange, Sandringham, Norfolk, Seaside resort, Sheringham, Shoal, Smithdon High School, Snettisham, St Botolph's Church, Boston, Stagecoach in Norfolk, Stratotype, The Wash, Tiverton Preedy, United Kingdom census, 2011, Very Good, Jeeves, Victorian era, Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom, Wells-next-the-Sea, William Butterfield. Expand index (31 more) »

A149 road

The A149 is commonly known as "The Coast Road" to local residents and tourists as this road runs along the North Norfolk coast from King's Lynn to Cromer passing through small coastal villages.

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Alison and Peter Smithson

Alison Margaret Smithson (22 June 1928 – 14 August 1993) and Peter Denham Smithson (18 September 1923 – 3 March 2003) were English architects that together formed an architectural partnership, and are often associated with the New Brutalism (especially in architectural and urban theory).

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Aunt Agatha

Agatha Gregson, née Wooster, later Lady Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character in the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being best known as Bertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha.

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Bill Alexander (director)

William Alexander Paterson (born 23 February 1948) known professionally as Bill Alexander is a British theatre director who is best known for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as artistic director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

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Boston, Lincolnshire

Boston is a town and small port in Lincolnshire, on the east coast of England, approximately 100 miles (160 km) north of London.

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British Geological Survey

The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly-funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.

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Burnham Overy

Burnham Overy is a civil parish on the north coast of Norfolk, England.

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Bypass (road)

A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or "bypasses" a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.

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Carrstone

Carrstone (or carstone, also known as Silsoe and gingerbread) is a sedimentary sandstone conglomerate formed during the Cretaceous period.

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Cavalier

The term Cavalier was first used by Roundheads as a term of abuse for the wealthier Royalist supporters of King Charles I and his son Charles II of England during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration (1642 – c. 1679).

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

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Clara Dow

Clara Millington Dow (29 December 1883 – 26 March 1969) was an English operatic soprano and actress of the early twentieth century.

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Cromer

Cromer is a coastal town and civil parish on the north coast of the English county of Norfolk.

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Day-tripper

A day-tripper is a person who visits a tourist destination or visitor attraction from his/her home and returns home on the same day.

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Deaf Havana

Deaf Havana are an English alternative rock band from Hunstanton and King's Lynn in Norfolk.

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Dersingham

Dersingham is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous/Middle Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.

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Edward the Martyr

Edward the Martyr (Eadweard, pronounced; 18 March 978) was King of England from 975 until he was murdered in 978.

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Edwardian era

The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history covers the brief reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes extended in both directions to capture long-term trends from the 1890s to the First World War.

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Fools and Worthless Liars

Fools and Worthless Liars is the second album from English band Deaf Havana and the first since the departure of founding member Ryan Mellor.

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George Grundy

George Graham Stewart Grundy (24 June 1859 – 4 March 1945) was an English cricketer.

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George Medal

The George Medal (GM), instituted on 24 September 1940 by King George VI,British Gallantry Medals (Abbott and Tamplin), p.138 is a decoration of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth, awarded for gallantry "not in the face of the enemy" where the services were not so outstanding as to merit the George Cross.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Grey seal

The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus, meaning "hooked-nosed sea pig") is found on both shores of the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Guy Le Strange

Guy le Strange (24 July 1854 – 24 December 1933) was a scholar in Persian, Arabic, and Spanish, specially notable for his work in the field of the historical geography of the pre-modern Middle Eastern and Eastern Islamic lands and his editing of Persian geographical texts.

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Hangover Square

Hangover Square is a 1941 novel by English playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton (1904–1962).

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Harbor seal

The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange

Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange (1815–1862), in early life Henry Styleman, was an English decorative painter.

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Hunstanton

Hunstanton is a seaside town in Norfolk, England.

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Hunstanton Formation

The Hunstanton Formation is a lithostratigraphic name applied to an early Cretaceous limestone succession in eastern England which was formerly known as the Red Chalk.

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Hunstanton Golf Club

Hunstanton Golf Club is an 18-hole members golf club in Norfolk, England which has hosted many of the leading amateur golf tournaments in Britain including the Brabazon Trophy and English Amateur.

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Hunstanton railway station

Hunstanton was a railway station which served the seaside town of Hunstanton in Norfolk, England.

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Ingoldisthorpe

Ingoldisthorpe is a village and civil parish in the north-west of the English county of Norfolk.

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King's Lynn

King's Lynn, known until 1537 as Bishop's Lynn, is a seaport and market town in Norfolk, England, about north of London, north-east of Peterborough, north north-east of Cambridge and west of Norwich.

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King's Lynn and West Norfolk

King's Lynn and West Norfolk is a local government district and borough in Norfolk, England.

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King's Lynn railway station

King's Lynn railway station is the northern terminus of the Fen line in the east of England, serving the town of King's Lynn, Norfolk.

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L. P. Hartley

Leslie Poles Hartley (30 December 1895 – 13 December 1972) was a British novelist and short story writer.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.

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Limestone

Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in east central England.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect.

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Lynx (bus company)

Lynx is a bus company based in King's Lynn and operating services across west and north Norfolk and eastern Cambridgeshire.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Middle East

The Middle Easttranslit-std; translit; Orta Şərq; Central Kurdish: ڕۆژھەڵاتی ناوین, Rojhelatî Nawîn; Moyen-Orient; translit; translit; translit; Rojhilata Navîn; translit; Bariga Dhexe; Orta Doğu; translit is a transcontinental region centered on Western Asia, Turkey (both Asian and European), and Egypt (which is mostly in North Africa).

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Money for Nothing (novel)

Money for Nothing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 27 July 1928 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on 28 September 1928 by Doubleday, Doran, New York.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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North Sea flood of 1953

The 1953 North Sea flood was a major flood caused by a heavy storm that occurred on the night of Saturday, 31 January 1953 and morning of Sunday, 1 February 1953.

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North West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)

North West Norfolk is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Sir Henry Bellingham, a Conservative.

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Old Hunstanton

Old Hunstanton is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Old Hunstanton Lighthouse

Old Hunstanton Lighthouse is located in Old Hunstanton in the English county of Norfolk.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century.

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Pamphleteer

Pamphleteer is a historical term for someone who creates or distributes pamphlets, unbound (and therefore inexpensive) booklets intended for wide circulation.

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Patrick Hamilton (writer)

Patrick Hamilton (17 March 1904 – 23 September 1962) was an English playwright and novelist.

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Peddars Way

The Peddars Way is a long distance footpath in Norfolk, England.

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Pier

Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century. A pier is a raised structure in a body of water, typically supported by well-spaced piles or pillars.

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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)

A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a selective, fee-charging independent primary school that caters primarily for children up to approximately the age of 13.

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Reis Leming

Reis Lee Leming GM (6 November 1930 – 5 November 2012) was an American airman who was awarded the British George Medal for his efforts in rescuing people during the North Sea flood of 1953.

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Richard Greer

Richard Greer is a former motorcycle speedway rider in the 1970s and 1980s Lives in Hunstanton, after moving from Whittlesey near Peterborough, and has been married to his wife, Joan, for 46 years.

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Ridable miniature railway

A ridable miniature railway (US: 'riding railroad' or grand scale railroad) is a large scale, usually ground-level model railway that hauls passengers using locomotives that are models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam engines or electric motors).

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River Hun

The River Hun is in the west of the county of Norfolk,Ordnance Survey (2002).

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Robert Herring (RAF officer)

Robert Samuel Herring (27 July 1897 – 11 September 1953) was a British officer who served in the Army and the Royal Air Force in both World Wars.

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Roger L'Estrange

Sir Roger L'Estrange (17 December 1616 – 11 December 1704) was an English pamphleteer, author and staunch defender of Royalist claims.

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Sandringham, Norfolk

Sandringham is a village and civil parish in the north of the English county of Norfolk.

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Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a resort town or resort hotel, located on the coast.

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Sheringham

Sheringham (population 7,367) is an English seaside town within the county of Norfolk in the United Kingdom.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and earth sciences, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface.

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Smithdon High School

Smithdon High School (formerly known as Hunstanton Secondary Modern School and Hunstanton School) is an non-selective (ages 11–16) academy, with 627 students in Hunstanton, Norfolk.

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Snettisham

Snettisham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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St Botolph's Church, Boston

St Botolph's Church is a parish church in the Church of England in Boston, Lincolnshire.

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Stagecoach in Norfolk

Stagecoach in Norfolk (formerly Norfolk Green) was a bus operator based in King's Lynn in Norfolk, England.

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Stratotype

A stratotype or type section is a geological term that names the physical location or outcrop of a particular reference exposure of a stratigraphic sequence or stratigraphic boundary.

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The Wash

The Wash is a largely rectangular bay and estuary at the north-west corner of East Anglia on the East coast of England, where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire.

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Tiverton Preedy

Tiverton Preedy (22 January 1863 – 26 April 1928) was an English clergyman who worked in Yorkshire and London from 1887 until his death, where he was noted for his work with the poor.

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United Kingdom census, 2011

A census of the population of the United Kingdom is taken every ten years.

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Very Good, Jeeves

Very Good, Jeeves is a collection of eleven short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, all featuring Jeeves and Bertie Wooster.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom

The wards and electoral divisions in the United Kingdom are electoral districts at sub-national level represented by one or more councillors.

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Wells-next-the-Sea

Wells-next-the-Sea is a port on the North Norfolk coast of England.

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William Butterfield

William Butterfield (7 September 1814 – 23 February 1900) was a Gothic Revival architect and associated with the Oxford Movement (or Tractarian Movement).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunstanton

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