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- Hunstanton is a seaside town in Norfolk, England. 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.Hunstanton is a 19th-century resort town, initially known as New Hunstanton to distinguish it from the adjacent village from which it took its 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, 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 carr stone. The river begins in the grounds of Old Hunstanton Park, which surrounds the old moated 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 lighthouse and the ruins of St Edmund's Chapel, built in 1272.In 1846, Henry Styleman Le Strange (1815–1862),^[8] decided to develop the area south of Old Hunstanton as a bathing resort. He brought a group of like-minded investors into the construction of a railway line from King's Lynn. In 1861, Le Strange, as principal landowner, became a director of the railway company and by 1862 the line had been built. Le Strange died in the same 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.

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Edmund the Martyr (died 869), King of East Anglia, landed here to claim his kingdom about 855. 

Sir Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704), Royalist and pamphleteer, was born here. 

Guy Le Strange (1854–1933), Middle East scholar and linguist, was born here.

 The River Hun is in the west of the county of Norfolk,^[1] in England. Its source is in the grounds of Hunstanton Park. Its mouth can be found on the North Sea near Holme-next-the-Sea.In the 11th century it was known as 'Esten broke' (i.e. Esten brook).