Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove
status	Unitary Authority , City
region	South East England
Ceremony county	East Sussex
Administrative headquarters	Hove
surface	82.67 km²
Residents	290.395
was standing	2018
ONS code	00ML
Website	www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
founding	1997

Brighton and Hove is an independent municipality ( Unitary Authority ) on the south coast of England . It was created by connecting the boroughs of Brighton and Hove in 1997. Since 2000, Brighton and Hove the status of a City .

The administrative headquarters of the Unitary Authority is in Hove. Brighton and Hove also includes Portslade and Rottingdean in addition to the namesake locations .

Architectural monuments

Welcome board in Brighton and Hove

→ List of Grade I architectural monuments in Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove 24 Buildings or complexes are under Grade I as a monument entered . These are buildings with special architecture or historical significance.

Brighton and Hove to the west developed as fishing villages on the English Channel. Brighton had a population of around 400 at the time the Domesday Book was written in 1086. Hove, with its long history of farming on the fertile lands behind the coast, was also known for smuggling . Both cities were in decline in the mid-18th century when the local doctor Richard Russell drew the attention of high society and the royal family to Brighton. The Royal Pavilion was soon built . The local architects Charles Busby , Amon Wilds and his son Amon Henry Wilds were responsible for several innovative, practical and elegant buildings from this period. Kemp Town was mainly the work of Barry and the elder Wilds and is made up of seven sections. These are also classified as historical monuments like the four sections of Brunswick .

In the 19th century, many church buildings were built in Brighton and Hove, four of which are also on the architectural monument list at the highest level, as is Brighton's West Pier , which has been in ruins for years after a series of severe storms and fires.

The 12th-century Ovingdeans Congregational Church and the early 18th-century mansion in Stanmer Park are the oldest Grade I structures in Brighton and Hove. In the 1930s the 20-22 Marlborough Place was built . The main University of Sussex building , designed by Basil Spence after World War II , has been a Grade I listed building since 1993 and is the youngest structure on this list.

traffic

Railway lines to Brighton see Brighton (transport)

Even before the merger of the cities of Brighton & Hove, the two transport companies , the private Hoves and urban Brightons, were merged into the privately organized Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company . It owns over 250  buses and was founded in the 1980s. Since 1993 it has been part of the Go-Ahead Group , which operates bus and rail transport in many parts of the UK.

Railway stations in the Brighton & Hove area

Animation of the development of the railway lines since 1840

• Aldrington, formerly: Devils Dyke Junction (West Coast Line)
• Brighton
• Hove, formerly: Cliftonville, (Hove and) West Brighton (west coast line)
• London Road (Brighton) (east coast line)
• Moulsecoomb (built 1980; east coast line)
• Portslade (temporarily Portslade & West Hove) (west coast line)
• Preston Park (line to London)

Aldrington is a stop, the other stations are at least temporarily served. Portslade and Brighton are well connected to the local bus network, the somewhat remote Hove station is only served by individual lines. At the other stations there are transfer options combined with non-signposted footpaths of up to five minutes.

Surroundings

July 17, 2002. Big Beach Boutique II , a live music event , drew thousands of Fatboy Slim fans to Brighton Beach.

To the east of Brighton are the villages of Woodingdean , Ovingdean , Saltdean and Rottingdean . The latter forms the only community ( Civil Parish ) within the Unitary Authority. The nearest towns to the east are Newhaven , Seaford and Eastbourne . To the west of Brighton & Hove are Portslade (part of the city), Shoreham-by-Sea and Steyning . The nearest towns are Worthing and Littlehampton .

Local celebrities

• Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), poet, draftsman, graphic artist, caricaturist and illustrator
• John Bowis (* 1945), Conservative Party MEP for London
• Dave Clarke (* 1968), internationally known music producer and techno DJ
• Electrelane , rock band
• Eric Gill (1882–1940), sculptor, graphic artist and typographer
• Nigel Kennedy (* 1956), violinist
• The Levellers , rock band
• Florence Marryat (1833–1899), writer
• Katie Price (* 1978), model and entrepreneur
• Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim) (* 1963), techno DJ and pioneer of electronic music
• John Watts , (Fischer-Z) (* 1954), singer and songwriter
• Nick Cave (* 1957), musician and writer
• The Kooks , rock band (album "Inside in / Inside out" with song "Seaside" to their hometown Brighton)

Web links

• Brighton & Hove City Council
• Statistical data based on the census on the site of the 2011 Office for National Statistics (English)
• The City of Brighton and Hove in the database of the Ordnance Survey (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mid 2018 Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
2. ↑ Carder, 1990. Paragraph 17
3. ↑ Middleton, 1979. page 1
4. ↑ West Pier Trust Newsletter (PDF) In: West Pier Trust newsletter . Brighton West Pier Trust. February 2003. Archived from the original on November 20, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 8, 2009. 
5. ↑ West Pier Trust Newsletter (PDF) In: West Pier Trust newsletter . Brighton West Pier Trust. May 2003. Archived from the original on January 6, 2009. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 8, 2009. 

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′  N , 0 ° 9 ′  W