24 hours in… BRIGHTON
May 22, 2020
3 minutes
Brighton first rose to prominence as a destination of choice for London’s upper classes and even royalty, but it hadn’t always been this way. It began as a Neolithic settlement, with the current name a shortened version of the original Anglo-Saxon “Brighthelmstone”.
By the late medieval era, the town had developed a thriving fishing industry, yet that had begun to decline by the 18th century, while the Great Storm of 1703 ravaged the seafront. Visiting author Daniel Defoe had been left unimpressed, noting that Brighton
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