Brighthelmstone

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Brighthelmstone

  1. (now historical) The town of Brighton; its official name until 1810.
    • 2007, Julie Burchill, Daniel Raven, Made in Brighton [] , Virgin Books, pages 60–61:
      [] in Brighton & Hove, where the council were not above attempting a sort of half-hearted, class-based ethnic-cleansing-without-violence, wherein families who have been in Brighton for generations—who could probably even trace their lineage right back to Brighthelmstone if they could be bovvered []