Brighthelmstone

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The town of Brighton; its official name until 1810. historical

    "[…] 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 […]"

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"[…] 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 […]"

Etymology

Old English Beorthelmestūn (“Beorthelm's farm”)

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