Like many seaside resorts, Withernsea has a wide promenade which reaches north and south from Pier Towers, the historic entrance to the pier, built in 1877 at a cost of £12,000. The pier was originally long, but was gradually reduced in length through several impacts by local ships, starting with the "Saffron" in 1880 before the collision by an unnamed ship in 1888, again by a Grimsby fishing boat and again by the "Henry Parr" in 1893, leaving the once grand pier with a mere of damaged wood and steel, which was removed in 1903. The Pier Towers have been refurbished.