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Preston Village Before Brighton Reached It
Recover the parish, manor, farms and roadside settlement that predated suburban absorption.
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CITY COLLECTION
Neighbourhoods
The distinct histories and identities of Brighton, Hove, Portslade and their communities.
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How Preston Park Changed the North of Brighton
Connect the creation of public open space with surrounding transport, housing and civic improvement.
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Patcham: A Downland Village Inside the City
Follow its ancient parish core, water landscape and twentieth-century suburban expansion.
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Rottingdean: Smuggling Stories and Documentary Evidence
Test popular legends against archives while tracing the village’s maritime and downland setting.
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Ovingdean’s Village Landscape
Explore how church, farms, lanes and surrounding Downs preserved a strong settlement pattern.
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Saltdean and the Dream of the Interwar Seaside Suburb
Examine planning, architectural variety and landscape in a speculative coastal development.
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Woodingdean and the Plotland Beginning
Trace informal plots, self-building, infrastructure struggles and eventual suburban consolidation.
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Moulsecoomb and the Municipal Housing Ideal
Assess how Brighton’s first large council estate translated garden-suburb ideas into public housing.
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Bevendean: Valley Farms to Post-war Estate
Show how topography and housing policy transformed a rural valley into a planned neighbourhood.
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Hollingbury Beneath the Hillfort
Connect prehistoric high ground, interwar housing and later industrial and residential expansion.
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Hollingdean’s Roads, Railways and Housing
Explain how transport infrastructure and municipal development formed an unusually enclosed neighbourhood.
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Coldean: A Post-war Neighbourhood in a Downland Valley
Examine planning, housing types and the relationship between the estate and its landscape setting.
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Queen’s Park From Private Venture to Public Park
Trace the landscape’s intended residential role, municipal acquisition and influence on surrounding streets.
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Lewes Road: Turnpike, Tramway and Urban Corridor
Follow the route from country road to transport spine and densely developed city district.
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Black Rock and East Brighton’s Changing Edge
Chart cliff, beach, transport and redevelopment schemes at the point where the built city meets the Downs.
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North Laine Before the Colourful Shopfronts
Recover the dense working neighbourhood of workshops, yards, homes and clearance proposals beneath its later cultural identity.
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Kemp Town: Estate, Parish and Neighbourhood
Separate the original planned estate from the much larger district that later adopted its name.
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Carlton Hill and the Lost Streets of Edward Street
Use maps and photographs to reconstruct a working-class district reshaped by twentieth-century clearance.
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Hanover and Elm Grove on the Steep Slopes
Explain how speculative terraces adapted to topography and housed Brighton’s expanding Victorian population.
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Round Hill: Villas, Railways and Terraces
Trace the transition from open downland to a distinctive hillside neighbourhood divided by transport routes.
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