Editing Hunstanton (section)

==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.