home of the Solar Dome greenhouse company, who made an unusual geodetic dome-shaped greenhouse and also had one of only two car manufacturers in Yorkshire in 1911. Hunmanby is also the location of a television transmitter which acts as a local relay filler for Filey, Bridlington and the surrounding villages which are unable to receive transmissions from Oliver's Mount and Belmont. It also is a terminal for the VSNL Northern Europe submarine telecommunications cable connecting with De Marne in the Netherlands. In 2010, Hunmanby won a Silver-gilt at the Britain in Bloom awards, this was the first time the village had entered the competition. There is also an autograss track just outside the village. In July 2018, actress and radio presenter Roxanne Pallett crashed whilst racing at the site. She was cut free from the wreckage and airlifted to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. See also Baron Sanderson Francis Wrangham Grand Hotel (Scarborough) Hunmanby railway station People from Hunmanby References External links Hunmanby Dot Com "The people and village" Hunmanby Internet All Saints Church, Hunmanby Hunmanby Parish Council Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire Borough of Scarborough