The Walk
Cliff car-parkSt Mary's Church
Old Hunstanton
Lifeboat Station
The Cliffs
North Promenade
The Green
Pleasure Beach
Water Sports
Hill Street
Youth Hostel
Union Church
Council Offices
St Edmund's
The Gardens
The Squares
Mail to the webmaster
| A walk round Hunstanton - Old Hunstanton Church | |
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| Old Hunstanton lies either side of the A149. Most of the town is to the North but the Church and a few cottages are to the South. If you approach this area from Chapel Bank, turn right at the junction in front of the Hospice. | |
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The Alice Oliphant Hospice was built in 1912 by the LeStrange family. |
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The church of St Mary the Virgin was built by Sir Harmon le Strange
between about 1300 and 1350 on the site of an earlier Norman structure,
probably built in the eleventh century.
The Norman font is still in use in the church.
The church was extensively repaired and altered in about 1853 by Henry
Styleman le Strange, who was a noted church artist who also worked in
Ely cathedral and designed and planned New Hunstanton and St. Edmund's church.
Government Officer Green and Dragoon Webb were killed in a battle with smugglers in 1784. They are buried in the churchyard. |
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This end of Church Road is a peaceful spot with a traditional duck pond. During the winter you are likely to be mugged by hungry ducks! |
| Follow Church Road north from the Church to the main coast road, at the East end of Old Hunstanton, near the bottom of the hill. | |