Hunmanby has a number of businesses located within the village, despite its small size.
These include Deep Sea Electronics Plc, Cirrus Research Plc, Humprenco, Peninsula Group, Barcodereaders.com, the Apollo Group and the Beck Engineering Group.
In 2017 Yorkshire's first Whisky distillery was opened on Hunmanby Industrial Estate by the owners of the nearby Wold Top Brewery.

The dinosaurs for Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight were manufactured in Hunmanby by Beck Engineering and featured on the TV series Blue Peter.
Historically it was the 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.
Hunmanby receives a daily news service from local commercial radio station Yorkshire Coast Radio.

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.
Hunmanby has a number of businesses located within the village, despite its small size. These include Deep Sea Electronics Plc, Cirrus Research Plc, Humprenco, Peninsula Group, Barcodereaders.com, the Apollo Group and the Beck Engineering Group. In 2017 Yorkshire's first Whisky distillery was opened on Hunmanby Industrial Estate by the owners of the nearby Wold Top Brewery.
The dinosaurs for Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight were manufactured in Hunmanby by Beck Engineering and featured on the TV series Blue Peter. Historically it was the 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. Hunmanby receives a daily news service from local commercial radio station Yorkshire Coast Radio.
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.
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