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Hornsea

town and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Place Town Q1263457

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, civil parish[4]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 53.911°, -0.168°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
East Riding of Yorkshire[2]

Population and size

Population
8.4k (8.2k–8.8k, n=3)[10][11][12]

Codes

Local dialing code
01964[7]
Postal code
HU18[5]
More facts +5
Authority
Hornsea Town Council[9]
Different from
Hornsey[13]
Historic county
Yorkshire[14]
OS grid reference
TA203476[8]
Said to be the same as
Hornsea[6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Hornsea en Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire fa هورنسی، ریدینگ شرقی یورکشر ja ホーンシー ko 혼시 ru Хорнси zh 霍恩西 zh-hans 霍恩希
🔖 Identifiers · 31
VIAF cluster ID
125737621
Library of Congress Authorities ID
nb2004305145
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Hornsea 2.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
czm9g11z9eet
BBC Things ID
d542c676-98ed-4a44-b4e6-2224a0004444
British History Online VCH ID
yorks/east/vol7/pp273-295
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/East_Riding_of_Yorkshire/Hornsea/
FactGrid item ID
Pérotin
Freebase ID
/m/020vsj
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2599041
GSS code (2011)
E04000415
GeoNames ID
2646583, 7298443
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J9U entity ID
987007473857505171
KEPN ID
Yorkshire ER/Hornsea
MusicBrainz area ID
d98115be-7984-492a-a9e7-e465f68a65d5
OpenDomesday settlement ID
TA2047/hornsea
OpenStreetMap relation ID
582137
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2646583
Quora topic ID
Hornsea
Survey of English Place-Names ID
53285473b47fc40a4d0003d3, 5328549ab47fc40a4d0004c7
TOID
7000000000004216, 4000000074573101
Topic's main category
Category:Hornsea
UN/LOCODE
GBHRZ
Vision of Britain place ID
79
Vision of Britain unit ID
10434178
WOEID
23922
Wellcome Collection concept ID
r9tqnfpm
Who's on First ID
101874157
Wikishire article ID
Hornsea
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJqfFCJGqvmpwGmqfKdxXd
Yale LUX ID
place/1bc3649c-64cf-4ad3-bf92-6a70505beea0

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
town, civil parish
People born here 2
J. O. Urmson, Sonia Dresdel
Contained subdivisions 1
Hornsea Mere
Country 1
United Kingdom
Different from 1
Hornsey
FactGrid item ID 1
Pérotin
Historic county 1
Yorkshire
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
East Riding of Yorkshire
Located in time zone 1
UTC+00:00
Named after 1
Hornsea Wind Farms
← Different from 1
Hornsey
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Summary

Hornsea is a town[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Hornsea include Hornsea Wind Farms[15], a windfarm cluster[16], in United Kingdom[17].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Hornsea include Hornsea Wind Farms[15], a windfarm cluster[16], in United Kingdom[17].

Related Entities

Pérotin United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved . nomisweb.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → East Riding of Yorkshire
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 53.9108, 'lon': -0.1676}
    Population → {'amount': '+8791'}, {'amount': '+8243'}, {'amount': '+8432'}
    Historic county → Yorkshire
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48912: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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