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Other Brightons around the world

48 in 11 countries
Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

At least 48 settlements in 11 different countries are known as 'Brighton', together with numerous variations such as 'New Brighton', 'Brighton Beach', 'Brighton Hills', 'Brightons', etc.

In the United Kingdom, the hamlet of Brighton lies south-east of Newquay in Cornwall, while a Brighton farm stands one mile south of Hartington in Derbyshire, and another lies to the south-west of Cupar in Fife.

The largest Brighton other than our own is situated six miles south of Melbourne, Australia, on the eastern side of Port Philip Bay, and has a population of about 40,000.

Settlements are to be found in the following countries:

i) Australia (4 instances): near Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart and Melbourne;
ii) Barbados (1);
iii) Canada (4): in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Ontario provinces;
iv) Guyana (1): east-south-east of Georgetown;
v) Jamaica (2): both south of Montego Bay;
vi) New Zealand (2): west-south-west of Dunedin, and north of Greymouth (but now known as Tiromoana);
vii) St Kitts (1);
viii) South Africa (2): near Cape Town, and in the Orange Free State;
ix) Trinidad (1): forty miles south-south-west of Port of Spain;
x) United States of America (27): in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York (2), Ohio (2), Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia.

This page was added on 22/03/2006.

Comments:

In addition to the two Brightons mentioned as being in New Zealand, there is another one, at the beach at Christchurch in the South Island. In fact, there's Brighton, South Brighton and North Brighton!
By Jean Blease (28/09/2003)
Brighton Hills West - a housing tract built in the early 1960s by an ex-husband of Christina Onassis - (Richard?) Bolker Development in the Los Angeles Ca. suburb of Montebello. S. or Rt. 60 N. of Beverly Bl. E. of Atlantic. Bl. and W. of Montebello Bl. Built as typical tract housing of the early 1960s three and four bedroom one-storey and later two-storey homes in the modern/contemporary style, some with south facing views to the Palos Verders Peninsula on a clear day.
By J. L. (27/09/2004)
There is a Brighton-Le-Sands in Sydney, Australia. It is located on the shores of Botany Bay.
By Ray Crawford (02/08/2006)

I am a Brighton expatriate, originally from Nile Street in The Lanes and a former pupil at Middle Street Primary School, the Secondary Technical and Varndean Sixth Form.  I now live and work in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (population 110,000) in the Caribbean and just two miles away, on the eastern or 'windward' coast, is a small village called Brighton.

By Adrian Baron (23/01/2007)

I was raised in Brighton and emigrated to Canada in 1976. I presently live in Kelowna, British Columbia, a city of 100,000 people. We have Brighton, Saltdean and Seaford Roads. The houses on those streets were built by Blackie Blackford, who hailed from somewhere close to Lewes. Thus, the names of those streets.

By Paul Henry (23/02/2007)

I was born and raised in Brighton, UK and emigrated to Canada in 1990. I live in a town called Napanee in Ontario. The town of Brighton, Ontario is about a 45 minute drive from Napanee, it is a quaint little town, I have stopped off there once. Sadly some of its older historic buildings are being demolished.

Just out of interest I named my Dalmatian dog Brighton.

By Fiona (25/03/2007)

I was born in Groby Leics. in Sept.1940 and raised in Brighton from Oct. 1940, then moved to London in 1963.
I emigrated to South Australia in 1985. Just south of where we live in Salisbury, there is a Brighton and Hove located next to each other on the seafront, always reminds me of home.

By James Friend (28/12/2007)

Probably the closest Brighton to Brighton Sussex is the small hamlet of Brighton, NE of Cayeux sur mer on the French coast near the mouth of the River Somme.

By Dan O'Shaughnessy (07/02/2008)

We used to drive out to the open air eating stalls at Brighton Beach, just to the south of Miri in Sarawak, East Malaysia (Borneo), when my wife, two daughters and I lived there in the early 1980s.

By Alan Phillips (27/04/2008)

I recall seeing a Brighton and Hove in Singapore, about 35 years ago.Before WWII Singapore was home to many British people. Driving around I was amazed at just how British it all looked, and that was in the early 70's. Lovely clean place and very interesting.

By BonnyCother/Veronica Bentley (06/06/2008)

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