page_title: Hilston
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Hilston / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: Wheat field at Hilston, Holderness, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, with Admiral Storr's Tower on the brow of the hill.The tower is an brick octagon, 50 ft high, built in 1750 for Joseph Storr (d. 1753). By 1852 was named after his son, Rear Admiral John Storr. It served as a seamark was used as a hospital for troops camped on the coast in 1794–5.
context_page_description: Hilston is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, near the North Sea coast in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 12 miles east of Kingston upon Hull city centre and 5 miles north-west of Withernsea. It lies to the east of the B1242 road.
context_section_description: An octagonal tower, known as Admiral Storr's Tower, that was built in 1750 as a look-out tower for John Storr and is designated a Grade II listed building and recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.
  The Anglican church is dedicated to St Margaret and was built 1956–57 to designs by Francis Johnson to replace the church destroyed by a Second World War bomb in August 1941.
caption: Admiral Storr's Tower, near Hilston
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