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Something a little different
House with green-tiled roof on Hamilton Road West > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/837220.
Hunstanton became famous as a seaside resort during Victorian times and it has the unusual distinction of being an east coast resort that faces west and for this reason gets more than its fair share of sun and is also known as Sunny Hunny. The area now called Old Hunstanton is the original village whereas the newer resort town of Hunstanton St Edmund was developed by the then Lord of the Manor (Styleman Le Strange), who, with the arrival of the railway in 1860, envisioned a place where gentlefolk could stroll and relax whilst taking in the sea air. Once described as 'the poor man's St Moritz', the town was seen as an ideal place for a health cure and in 1897 a Dr Latham of Cambridge suggested that Hunstanton was 'as good as Switzerland'. http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=21890
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 8 Jun 2008
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Blue cottage
On Wodehouse Road, which is also a section of the Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path.
Hunstanton became famous as a seaside resort during Victorian times and it has the unusual distinction of being an east coast resort that faces west and for this reason gets more than its fair share of sun and is also known as Sunny Hunny. The area now called Old Hunstanton is the original village whereas the newer resort town of Hunstanton St Edmund was developed by the then Lord of the Manor (Styleman Le Strange), who, with the arrival of the railway in 1860, envisioned a place where gentlefolk could stroll and relax whilst taking in the sea air. Once described as 'the poor man's St Moritz', the town was seen as an ideal place for a health cure and in 1897 a Dr Latham of Cambridge suggested that Hunstanton was 'as good as Switzerland'. http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=21890
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 8 Jun 2008
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Hamilton Road West
An unsurfaced private access road leading to houses further along.
Hunstanton became famous as a seaside resort during Victorian times and it has the unusual distinction of being an east coast resort that faces west and for this reason gets more than its fair share of sun and is also known as Sunny Hunny. The area now called Old Hunstanton is the original village whereas the newer resort town of Hunstanton St Edmund was developed by the then Lord of the Manor (Styleman Le Strange), who, with the arrival of the railway in 1860, envisioned a place where gentlefolk could stroll and relax whilst taking in the sea air. Once described as 'the poor man's St Moritz', the town was seen as an ideal place for a health cure and in 1897 a Dr Latham of Cambridge suggested that Hunstanton was 'as good as Switzerland'. http://www.west-norfolk.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=21890
Image: © Evelyn Simak
Taken: 8 Jun 2008
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Beach Huts
Image: © Kim Fyson
Taken: 23 Mar 2014
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the Wash from the Peddars Way
where the Peddars Way leaves Hunstanton and the sand dunes start. Tide out, early one March morning
Image: © Sheila Russell
Taken: 15 Mar 2004
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Beach at Old Hunstanton.
This beach is good for kite flying and wind surfing, or combining the two!
Image: © Andy Peacock
Taken: 12 Nov 2005
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RNLI Lifeboat Station, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk
Image: © Christine Matthews
Taken: 17 Oct 2013
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Road from the lefeboat station to Shellseekers
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 30 Sep 2023
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Way to Beach, Old Hunstanton, Norfolk
The sandy path is also the way the lifeboat gets to the sea.
Image: © Christine Matthews
Taken: 17 Oct 2013
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Shed opposite the lifeboat station
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 30 Sep 2023
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