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Old Hunstanton

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the following year it proved impossible to secure any convictions. Both gravestones are Grade II listed; one has "Here be the mangled remains of poor William Green an Honest Officer of Government who/in the faithful discharge of his duty/was inhumanely murdered/by a gang of smugglers in this parish."
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Storms deposit items on the beach including marine life this may be strandings of cetaceans, mass strandings of starfish and shellfish or boats wrecked in storms. In December 2011 a large whale washed ashore on the beach.
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or 'New Hunstanton'. The quiet character of Old Hunstanton remains distinct from and complements that of its busy sibling, with clifftop walks past the disused
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Records of the Norfolk Yeomanry Cavalry, to which is added the fencible and provisional Cavalry of the same county from 1780 to 1908
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St Mary's churchyard contains the graves of a customs officer William Green and William Webb of the
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as ‘Hunestanestada’. Later it became part of the Le Strange family (or L'Estrange) estates.
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Hunstanton Hall entry from The DiCamillo Companion to British & Irish Country Houses
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Wolf sculpture marking the spot overlooking where St Edmund supposedly landed in 855
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Parts of the beach are backed by sand dunes and are the location for beach huts.
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lifeboat station with a B class (Atlantic) boat and a hovercraft.
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This small settlement adjoins to the north the larger resort of
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Parva), is the ruined Chapel of St Andrew which is Grade II*.
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Tales from the Gibbet Post (The Murder of Customs Officers)
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The parish church of St Mary, situated in the grounds of
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runs to the coast just to the east of Old Hunstanton.
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OS grid reference
TF683422
District
King's Lynn and West Norfolk
Shire county
Norfolk
Region
East
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
PE36
Police
Norfolk
Fire
Norfolk
Ambulance
East of England
UK
England
Norfolk
civil parish
English county
Norfolk
2001 census
district
King's Lynn and West Norfolk

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