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{{Short description|Seaside town in Norfolk, England}}
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{{Infobox UK place
|official_name = Hunstanton
|country = England
|region = East of England
|static_image_name = View of Hunstanton Front From The Beach.jpg
|static_image_caption = View of Hunstanton front from the beach
|shire_county = [[Norfolk]]
|shire_district = [[King's Lynn and West Norfolk]]
|constituency_westminster = [[North West Norfolk (UK Parliament constituency)|North West Norfolk]]
|population = 4,229
|area_total_km2 = 6.07
|population_ref = ([[2011 UK census|2011]])
|os_grid_reference = TF6740
|coordinates = {{coord|52.93|0.48|display=inline,title}}
|post_town = HUNSTANTON
|postcode_area = PE
|postcode_district = PE36
|dial_code = 01485
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'''Hunstanton''' (sometimes pronounced {{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ʌ|n|s|t|ə|n||audio=En-uk-Hunstanton.ogg}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Stuart |date=2020-02-03 |title=Do you know how to say these strange place names correctly? |url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/norfolk-s-happisburgh-and-hunstanton-make-list-of-mispronounced-place-1508218 |access-date=2022-04-05 |website=[[Eastern Daily Press]] |language=en-UK}}</ref>) is a [[seaside resort|seaside town]] in [[Norfolk]], England, which had a population of 4,229 at the 2011 Census.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124903&c=hunstanton&d=16&e=62&g=6449236&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440759959952&enc=1 |title=Town population 2011 |access-date=28 August 2015 |archive-date=11 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011192031/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11124903&c=hunstanton&d=16&e=62&g=6449236&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440759959952&enc=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It faces west across [[The Wash]]. Hunstanton lies 102 miles  (164&nbsp;km) north-north-east of [[London]] and 40 miles (64&nbsp;km) north-west of [[Norwich]].

==Correct pronunciation==
"Hunstan";<ref>Hales, J. and Bennett, W. "Looking at Norfolk" (October 1971), Charles N. Veal & Company.</ref><ref>https://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/norfolk_place_names.htm</ref> "Hunston" (the emphasis is placed upon the vowel of the first syllable).<ref>https://friendsofnorfolkdialect.com/portfolio-items/norfolk-placenames/ (text and recorded audio</ref> Professor Trudgill states that, twelve hundred years ago, Hunstanton was called ''hunstans-tūn'', meaning 'the homestead of Hunstan', but that this three-syllable pronunciation "eventually and quite naturally acquired a more reduced form, ''Hunst'nt'n'', which was later further reduced to ''Hunst'n''", and that this happened a long time ago.  He points out that the original form would "most certainly not come down to us as ''Hun-STAN-ton'' - that is a modern mistake".  The "authentic old three-syllable pronunciation" is, he asserts, "HUN-st'n-t'n"<ref>Trudgill, P. "Dialect Matters" (2003) Cambridge University Press, p. 206</ref>

==History==
[[File:Hunstanton Town Hall and Le Strange statue (geograph 5686415).jpg|thumb|left|[[Hunstanton Town Hall]] and the statue of Henry Styleman Le Strange]]
[[File:St. Edmund's Memorial Chapel, Hunstanton.jpg|thumb|left|Remains of St Edmund's Memorial Chapel in 2016]]
Hunstanton is a 19th-century resort town, initially known as New Hunstanton to distinguish it from the adjacent village of that name. The new town soon exceeded the village in scale and population.

The original settlement, now [[Old Hunstanton]], probably gained its name from the [[River Hun (Norfolk)|River Hun]], which runs to the coast just to the east. It has also been argued that the name originated from "Honeystone", referring to the local red [[carrstone|carr stone]]. The river begins in the grounds of Old Hunstanton Park, which surrounds the moated [[Hunstanton Hall]], the ancestral home of the Le Strange family. Old Hunstanton village is of prehistoric origin and lies near to the head of [[Peddars Way]]. In 1970, evidence of [[Neolithic]] settlement was found. The quiet character of the village remains distinct from its busy sibling and complements it with clifftop walks past a redundant [[Old Hunstanton Lighthouse|lighthouse]] and the ruins of St Edmund's Chapel, built in 1272.

In 1846, [[Henry L'Estrange Styleman Le Strange]] (1815–1862),<ref>Source: Hunstanton Civic Society</ref> decided to develop the area south of Old Hunstanton as a bathing resort. He brought a group of like-minded investors into building a railway line from [[King's Lynn]]. In 1861, Le Strange, as principal landowner, became a director of the railway company. By 1862 the line had been built. Le Strange died that year at the age of 47, leaving his son Hamon to reap the rewards of his efforts. The [[Lynn and Hunstanton Railway]] became one of the most consistently profitable in the country.

Le Strange moved the ancient village cross from Old Hunstanton to a new site in 1846. In 1848 the first main building, the Royal Hotel (now the ''Golden Lion''), was built by Victorian architect, [[William Butterfield]], a friend of Le Strange. Overlooking a sloping green and the sea, and for several years standing alone, it earned the nickname "Le Strange's Folly". In 1850 Le Strange, an amateur architect and painter, appointed a land agent to survey the site and prepare a plan. Le Strange drew and painted a map and a perspective of the scheme, showing shops, a station and a church. He consulted William Butterfield on the design. Their shared passion was for an "Old English" style of architecture for domestic buildings, owing much to medieval precedents and the earnest [[Gothic Revival architecture|Victorian Gothic Revival]]. Hunstanton came to exemplify a 19th-century estate seaside town. Most of the fabric and character of that development survives.

In 1915, during the [[First World War]], Hunstanton was the headquarters of the West Norfolk training programme of the [[Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders]], as they prepared for [[active service]] on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref>[[Mary Mackie]]: ''Hunstanton's Highland Heroes: West Norfolk 1915'' (King's Lynn: Morningside Publishers, 2018) {{ISBN|0-95759-782-7}}.</ref> Among them were regimental [[Great Highland bagpipe|bagpipe]]r [[Iain Eairdsidh MacAsgaill]] (1898-1934),  and poet [[Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna]] (1887-1967).

Hunstanton was hit badly by the [[North Sea flood of 1953]]. The wall of water on the night of 31 January – 1 February killed 31 people, 16 of them [[United States military]] personnel and their families. There were 35 more victims in neighbouring [[Snettisham]] and [[Heacham]].<ref>''Eastern Daily Press'' memorial issue, 1 February 2013 [http://www.edp24.co.uk/features/the-floods-of-1953-village-and-towns-struck-by-tragedy-1-1833265 Retrieved 8 September 2018.]</ref>

==Governance==
The Hunstanton [[Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom|electoral ward]] belongs to the Borough Council of [[King's Lynn and West Norfolk]].<ref>Borough site [https://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/homepage/151/borough_elections_2015 Retrieved 4 December 2016.]</ref> Its 2011 population was 5,420.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13693593&c=hunstanton&d=14&e=62&g=6449234&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1440760268546&enc=1 |title=Ward population 2011 |access-date=28 August 2015}}</ref> Hunstanton has a mayor and a 17-member town council that meets twice a month at [[Hunstanton Town Hall]].<ref>Council site [http://www.hunstantontowncouncil.co.uk/hunstanton-town-council Retrieved 4 December 2016.] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018082953/http://hunstantontowncouncil.co.uk/hunstanton-town-council |date=18 October 2016}}</ref> The parish was formed as "New Hunstanton" in 1894 from "Hunstanton".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/docking.html|title=Docking Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=7 February 2023}}</ref> On 1 April 1974 "New Hunstanton" parish was renamed "Hunstanton" and "Hunstanton" parish renamed "Old Hunstanton".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/fakenham.html|title=Fakenham Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=7 February 2023}}</ref>

==Geology==
{{further|Hunstanton Cliffs}}
[[File:Hunstanton Cliffs.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|The stratified [[Carrstone]] (orange),<ref>{{cite book |title=Hunstanton Guide Book |author=anonymous |publisher=Hunstanton & District Civic Society |year=2018}}</ref> red chalk [[limestone]] and white [[chalk]] [[cliff]]s on the beach at Old Hunstanton]] The coastal cliffs include the [[type section]] of the [[Hunstanton Formation]] of lower reddish [[limestone]], which was laid down during the [[Lower Cretaceous]]. This is topped by a white [[chalk]] layer from the [[Upper Cretaceous]] period.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bgs.ac.uk/Lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=HUCK |title=Hunstanton Formation |publisher=[[British Geological Survey]]}}</ref>

==Climate==
{{Weather box|location = Hunstanton 28m asl, 1991-2020
|metric first = Yes
|single line = Yes
|Jan high C = 7.1
|Feb high C = 7.5
|Mar high C = 9.8
|Apr high C = 12.7
|May high C = 16.0
|Jun high C = 18.8
|Jul high C = 21.3
|Aug high C = 21.3
|Sep high C = 18.3
|Oct high C = 14.5
|Nov high C = 10.3
|Dec high C = 7.6
|year high C = 13.8
|Jan mean C = 4.6
|Feb mean C = 4.9
|Mar mean C = 6.7
|Apr mean C = 9.1
|May mean C = 12.3
|Jun mean C = 15.0
|Jul mean C = 17.3
|Aug mean C = 17.3
|Sep mean C = 14.9
|Oct mean C = 11.5
|Nov mean C = 7.7
|Dec mean C = 5.2
|year mean C = 10.6
|Jan low C = 2.2
|Feb low C = 2.3
|Mar low C = 3.6
|Apr low C = 5.6
|May low C = 8.6
|Jun low C = 11.2
|Jul low C = 13.4
|Aug low C = 13.4
|Sep low C = 11.4
|Oct low C = 8.5
|Nov low C = 5.2
|Dec low C = 2.8
|year low C = 7.4
|precipitation colour = green
|Jan precipitation mm = 51.6
|Feb precipitation mm = 39.2
|Mar precipitation mm = 35.3
|Apr precipitation mm = 38.1
|May precipitation mm = 42.3
|Jun precipitation mm = 58.0
|Jul precipitation mm = 48.7
|Aug precipitation mm = 51.5
|Sep precipitation mm = 49.7
|Oct precipitation mm = 61.2
|Nov precipitation mm = 56.6
|Dec precipitation mm = 55.6
|year precipitation mm = 587.7
|unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm
|Jan precipitation days = 10.9
|Feb precipitation days = 9.8
|Mar precipitation days = 8.0
|Apr precipitation days = 8.2
|May precipitation days = 7.8
|Jun precipitation days = 8.9
|Jul precipitation days = 9.0
|Aug precipitation days = 9.2
|Sep precipitation days = 9.0
|Oct precipitation days = 10.3
|Nov precipitation days = 11.8
|Dec precipitation days = 11.4
|year precipitation days = 114.3
|Jan sun = 60.0
|Feb sun = 81.7
|Mar sun = 120.7
|Apr sun = 177.6
|May sun = 197.6
|Jun sun = 187.2
|Jul sun = 202.4
|Aug sun = 188.6
|Sep sun = 147.7
|Oct sun = 112.4
|Nov sun = 68.0
|Dec sun = 60.3
|year sun = 1604.2
|source 1 = Met Office<ref>{{cite web
|url = https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-climate-averages/u12m5jnv8
|title = Hunstanton 1991–2020 averages
|access-date = 26 February 2022
|publisher = Met Office }}</ref>
|date = Feb 2022}}

==Tourism==
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[[File:Old Hunstanton Lighthouse 2016.jpg|thumb|Former lighthouse in 2016]]
[[File:Hunstanton Beach at Dusk Aug 2013.jpg|thumb|Hunstanton Beach at dusk, August 2013]]
Hunstanton's summer crowds are smaller than in the 1980s, although its relative popularity with [[day-tripper]]s and holidaymakers has endured, despite the decline in British seaside holidaying. Businesses in villages south of Hunstanton ([[Dersingham]], [[Ingoldisthorpe]] and [[Snettisham]]) complained in the 1990s of a loss in trade after being bypassed by the [[A149 road|A149]] to Hunstanton.
[[File:Boat on the Wash at Hunstanton.jpg|thumb|Looking out across [[The Wash]] from Hunstanton]]

[[File:UK Hunstanton (SideA).jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.65|Place name sign in Hunstanton]]
The town has several Victorian squares. Boston Square provides a view across [[the Wash]] to [[Boston, Lincolnshire]] where both [[St Botolph's Church, Boston|Boston Stump]] and the seaside town of [[Skegness]] are visible on clear days.

Hunstanton has a fairground, aquarium and seal sanctuary, leisure pool, theatre, large caravan parks with amenities, some amusement arcades, and a long promenade. The centrepiece remains the large sloping green from one end of High Street to the promenade.

Hunstanton has markets on Wednesdays and Sundays selling fresh fish and fresh fruit and vegetables attract greater visitor numbers in the summer months through to the autumn. The main shopping streets have stone buildings, some with glazed canopies, evoking the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian era]]s of their construction.

In good weather, excursion boats take visitors out to view [[grey seals|grey]] and [[common seal]]s that have colonised [[sand bar]]s in the Wash and to the north of Norfolk. The countryside around Hunstanton is hillier than most of Norfolk and sparsely populated, the only large settlement nearby is King's Lynn, {{convert|12|mi|km}} to the south.

==Hunstanton Pier==
The town once had a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[pleasure pier]], with a pavilion and [[Ridable miniature railway|miniature steam railway]]. 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 storm in 1978. What remained extended just 15 feet out from the amusement arcade and cafe built on the site of the original entrance. In 2002, the entire building, with the remains of the pier, was destroyed in a fire. The building was too badly damaged for the cause to be determined. Today, the site is occupied by an arcade and bowling alley complex.

The pier featured in the 1957 Ealing Studios comedy film ''[[Barnacle Bill (1957 film)|Barnacle Bill]]'' (released in the US as ''All at Sea'') starring [[Alec Guinness]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://piers.org.uk/piers/hunstanton/ |title=Hunstanton – National Piers Society |date=25 March 2016}}</ref>

==Transport==
The town is linked to King's Lynn by a frequent [[Lynx (bus company)|Lynx]] bus service. Other services run to [[Sandringham, Norfolk|Sandringham]], [[Wells-next-the-Sea]], [[Sheringham]] and [[Cromer]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lynxbus.co.uk/bus-times-fares/ |title=Bus times from King's Lynn to Hunstanton from Lynxbus |website=Lynx |access-date=27 September 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[Hunstanton railway station]] offered services to [[King's Lynn railway station|King's Lynn]] until 1969, when the line was closed as uneconomic.

==Education==
The [[Smithdon High School]] (formerly Hunstanton Secondary Modern School) is an early building designed by the architects [[Peter and Alison Smithson]], built in 1949–1954 in a radical style of international architectural significance. It is a Grade II* listed building.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smithdonhighschool.org.uk/ |title=Smithdon High School |access-date=19 April 2022 |archive-date=21 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521135127/http://smithdonhighschool.org.uk/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The school epitomised architectural experiment in post-war Britain and growing acceptance of modernism by public authorities. It was praised for an intelligent layout and formal elegance.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Hunstanton_School |title=Hunstanton School – Data, Photos & Plans – WikiArquitectura}}</ref> The Smithsons deliberately left many of the service elements of the school exposed, making a feature of the water tank by turning it into a tower. The disposition, steel frames and panels of brick and glass echo the work of [[Mies van der Rohe]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/revisiting-alison-and-peter-smithson%E2%80%99s-hunstanton-school/5001016.article |title=Revisiting Alison and Peter Smithson's Hunstanton school|work=Building Design }}</ref>

Hunstanton is home to Glebe House School, an independent co-educational [[Preparatory school (UK)|preparatory school]].

==Theatre, cinema and culture==
The Princess Theatre is a 472-seat, year-round venue for shows from comedy to drama, music for all tastes, and children's productions. It also has a six-week summer season and an annual Christmas pantomime. Films are screened in the week. Opened as the Capitol Cinema in 1932, it is noted for its Norfolk [[Carrstone|carr]] stone construction, of which it contains the largest gable wall in existence. It was designed as a theatre as well as a cinema, but closed in the 1960s and was sold in 1974. It reopened as the Kingsley Centre for summer seasons and films for about two years, but declined into a bingo hall before closing again. The Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk purchased it in 1981, and in honour of [[Lady Diana Spencer]], who married the Prince of Wales in July 1981, it was renamed the Princess Theatre and officially re-opened on 5 July 1981.

Hunstanton Concert Band plays in and around Hunstanton at a wide variety of venues including churches, fêtes, concerts and the town's bandstand. The [[Deaf Havana]] album ''[[Fools and Worthless Liars]]'' featured a track called "Hunstanton Pier", a nostalgic recollection of the town where James Veck-Gilodi, its lead singer, grew up.

===Literary associations===
[[File:Wreck of the Sheraton - geograph.org.uk - 1553402.jpg|thumb|Wreck of the ''Sheraton'']]
Between the world wars, [[P. G. Wodehouse]] often visited his friend Charles Le Strange at [[Hunstanton Hall]]. It influenced a number of locations in his comic novels, as [[Aunt Agatha]]'s country seat Woollam Chersey and the inspiration for the setting for [[Money for Nothing (novel)|''Money for Nothing'']] (1928). The octagon in the garden featured in [[Very Good, Jeeves|"Jeeves and the Impending Doom"]]. Norfolk also furnishes names for many of Wodehouse's characters, such as Brancaster, Jack Snettisham and J. Sheringham Adair.

[[L. P. Hartley]] knew the Hunstanton neighbourhood from childhood holidays and used it as a setting for ''The Shrimp and the Anemone'' (1944), the first novel in his Eustace and Hilda trilogy. It is at Hunstanton Hall, fictionalised as Anchorstone Hall, that Eustace enters the privileged world of the aristocracy and eventually inherits a small fortune. The layered chalk, red chalk and carr-stone cliffs at Hunstanton provide a backdrop for Eustace and Hilda's games among the rock pools.

[[Patrick Hamilton (writer)|Patrick Hamilton]]'s novel ''[[Hangover Square]]'' opens with George Harvey Bone walking on the cliffs in Hunstanton. Hamilton lived for many years at Martincross in [[Sheringham]] and spent time in the 1930s in a cottage in [[Burnham Overy Staithe]], with his first wife, Lois.

==Media==
Regional TV services are provided by [[BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire]] and [[ITV Yorkshire]]. Television signals are received from the [[Belmont transmitting station|Belmont]] TV transmitter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/tv/Belmont|title=Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter|date=1 May 2004|website=UK Free TV|accessdate=25 September 2023}}</ref> [[BBC East]] and [[ITV Anglia]] are also received through cable and satellite television such as [[Freesat]] and [[Sky UK|Sky]].

Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Norfolk]], [[Heart East]], [[Greatest Hits Radio East|Greatest Hits Radio West Norfolk]] (formerly [[KL.FM 96.7]]) ''Radio West Norfolk'' <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.radiowestnorfolk.co.uk/ |title= Radio West Norfolk |access-date= 25 September 2023}}</ref> and ''KL1 Radio''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://kl1radio.co.uk/ |title=KL1 Radio |access-date= 25 September 2023}}</ref>

The town is served by these local newspapers: 
* ''[[Lynn News]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/ |title=Lynn News |access-date= 25 September 2023}}</ref>
* ''Your Local Paper'' <ref>[https://www.yourlocalpaper.co.uk/ Lynn News website]</ref>
* [[The Eastern Daily Press]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishpapers.co.uk/england-eang/east-anglian-daily-times/|title=Eastern Daily Press|date=23 June 2014|website=British Papers|accessdate=25 September 2023}}</ref>

==Sport==
[[File:Paragliding over Hunstanton sea cliffs.jpg|thumb|Paragliding above the cliffs in Hunstanton]]
Hunstanton attracts thousands during a week in August, for the ITA Hunstanton Lawn Tennis tournament – the biggest in England after Wimbledon, inaugurated in 1920. All ages can play from the young (Under 8 Round Robin) to senior veterans. It acts also as a big social event.

[[Hunstanton Golf Club]], founded in 1891 by Hamon Le Strange, is an 18-hole championship links along the sandy coast of Old Hunstanton. It has a classic "out and back" design on either side of a central spine or dune ridge. The 12th, 13th and 14th holes play across the ridge.

The town has hosted several international sporting events, including the 2005 World Water Ski Racing Championships.

Lifestyles Festival was a sports festival held annually in Hunstanton until 2014. The festival had been held in the summer since 2005 and specialised in sporting events such as expert [[BMX bike|BMXing]], [[in-line skating]], and [[skateboarding]], and [[Kite Surfing]]. An estimated 12,000 people attend in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title="BCKLWN RESOURCES AND PERFORMANCE PANEL Thursday 11 November 2010 "|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250326192039/https://democracy.west-norfolk.gov.uk/Data/Resources%20and%20Performance%20Panel/20101111/Agenda/Agenda%20pdf.pdf}}</ref> for the sporting activities, along with a number of cultural events including live music, visual arts, and dance. After council funding was reportedly cut by £50,000 in 2013<ref>{{cite web|title="Lifestyles Festival"|url=https://www.lingoliz.co.uk/lifestyles-festival/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241210044623/https://www.lingoliz.co.uk/lifestyles-festival/ | archive-date=2024-12-10}}</ref> causing the festival to be cancelled for one year,<ref>{{cite web|title="Hunstanton extreme sports festival cancelled"|url=https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/business/21075254.hunstanton-extreme-sports-festival-cancelled/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250326193154/https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/business/21075254.hunstanton-extreme-sports-festival-cancelled/ | archive-date=2025-03-26}}</ref> the festival committee crowdfunded £20,000<ref>{{cite web|title="Lifestyles Appeal"|url=https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lifestyles-appeal}}</ref> to run independently in 2014 for the last time.

==Notable people==
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*[[Edmund the Martyr]] (died 869), King of East Anglia, supposedly landed here to claim his kingdom about 855.
*Sir [[Roger L'Estrange]] (1616–1704), [[Cavalier|Royalist]] and [[pamphleteer]], was born here.
*[[Guy Le Strange]] (1854–1933), [[Middle East]] scholar and linguist, was born here.
*[[George Grundy]] (1859–1945), first-class cricketer, died here.
*[[Tiverton Preedy]] (1863–1928), Anglican cleric and sports promoter, was born here.
*[[Clara Dow]] (1883–1969), operatic soprano and actress, made her stage début here in 1899.
*[[Robert Herring (RAF officer)|Robert Herring]] (1897–1973), an officer in the [[London Regiment (1908–1938)|London Regiment]], a [[flying ace]] in the [[Royal Flying Corps]], and the [[Royal Air Force]] during both World Wars, born here. Recipient of the [[Military Cross]]
*[[Reis Leming]] (1930–2012), US airman, received the UK [[George Medal]] for rescuing 27 people from South Beach during the North Sea flood of 1953.
*[[Richard Greer]] (born 1946), motorcycle speedway rider in the 1970s and 1980s, lives here.
*[[Bill Alexander (director)|Bill Alexander]] (born 1948), theatre director, was born here.

==Arms==
{{Infobox COA wide
|title = Hunstanton Town Council
|notes = Granted 9 September 1955.
|escutcheon = Barry wavy Argent and Azure on a pile reversed Gules two arrows in saltire points downwards enfiled with a coronet of four fleurs-de-lys set upon a rim Or on a chief also Gules a lion passant of the first.
|crest = On a wreath of the colours a sea lion Or supporting an ostrich feather erect Argent.
|motto = Alios Delectare Juvat (It Is Our Pleasure To Please Others).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/east_of_england.html|title=East of England Region |publisher=Civic Heraldry of England |accessdate=10 March 2021}}</ref>}}

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.hunstantontowncouncil.gov.uk/ Hunstanton Town Council]
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