Did you know? * The young George IV liked to go dancing until 4 a.m. * Brighton is home to the UK`s oldest electric railway * There are nearly 1, 400 premises licensed to sell alcohol in Brighton & Hove * Brighton & Hove welcomes 8 million visitors annually & has been voted one of the top five cities that tourists want to visit during their stay in the UK This engaging little book is packed full of insider knowledge, facts, figures & the secrets of the vibrant city of Brighton & Hove: diversity, culture, the arts, history, comedy & creativity in bucket-&-spade-loads. ...

Brighton & The South Downs at 1:25, 000 in a series of Walker’s Maps published by the AA with the cartography from the Ordnance Survey’s Explorer series. Coverage

Includes:: Hove, Shorehan-by-Sea, Upper Beeding, Henfield, Hickstead, Hurstpierpoint, Burgess Hill, Ditchling, Plumpton, Lewes, Glynde, Ringmer, Newhaven, etc. Maps in the AA Walker’s series are identical to the OS Explorer maps & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating in England & Wales the traditional public rights of way paths, including bridleways & byways restricted or open to motorized traffic. Also shown are other routes with public access, including permissive footpaths & bridleways. For Scotl&, where different access rights apply, the maps provide an additional note explaining the regulations. Special marking indicates National Trails & Recreational Routes & for cyclists the maps show traffic-free routes & the National Cycle Network. A wide range of symbols highlights locations of special tourist interest: camping & caravanning sites, youth hostels, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, historic buildings (indicating where appropriate National Trust, English Heritage, Historic Scotland or Cadw), sites for various recreational pursuits, country pubs, public toilets, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of the topography with contours at 5 or 10m intervals, numerous spot heights & colouring and/or graphics for different types of vegetation. Additional colouring shows access l&, including areas managed by the National Trust, Forestry Commission & Woodland Trust. All the standard information expected of high quality survey mapping at this scale is included: finely graded road network, railway lines with stations, cuttings or embankments, individual isolated buildings, etc. For GPS users the British National Grid is drawn at 1km intervals.

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What was Brighton called in the Domesday Book? What are 'twittens'? Who was Martha Gunn? What waist measurement are the Prince Regent's breeches? Who were the Brighton Tigers? All these questions & many, many more are answered in Brighton, A Very Peculiar History Quiz Book. Have fun with this wide selection of questions & answers about Brighton (and Hove), featuring famous"es, quirky stories & detailed answers. Challenge yourself by testing your knowledge of the popular seaside resort. ...

Brighton, Worthing, Lewes & Newhaven Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in an A5 paperback format at 1:15, 840 (4” to a mile), with an enlargement showing the town centre of Brighton in greater detail at 1:7, 920 (8” to 1 mile). Coverage

Includes:: Hove, Seaford, Shoreham-by-Sea, Falmer, Ferring, Findon, Lancing, Peacehaven, Portslade-by-Sea, Rottingdean, Southwick & Steyning, Current edition of this title was published in 2012. To see other titles in this series of A-Z street atlases of towns & cities please click on the series link. A-Z also publish a series of County Street Atlases, for a list of titles in that series please search for SI00000917.A-Z street atlases present motorways plus A & B roads highlighted by colouring & shown with route numbers. One way or restricted access streets & car parks are marked, as are in more recently published titles locations of speed cameras. Also shown are selected cycleway routes. Where appropriate, A & B roads are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Railway lines are shown with stations & level crossings. Colouring indicates different types of buildings: educational, hospitals & healthcare, industrial, leisure & recreational, shopping centres & markets, public buildings, & places of interest. Symbols mark locations of facilities usually indicated on street mapping: post offices, emergency services, public toilets, etc. Also marked are postcode & local authority boundaries. Each page has the lines & coordinates of the British National Grid. The indexes list streets, places & areas, hospitals, industrial estates, blocks of flats on housing estates, railway stations, & selected places o interest; the latter are printed in contrasting colouring to make them easier to find.

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Brighton in 1909 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers much of central & west Brighton, together with a large part of Hove. Coverage stretches from Old Steine & Grand Parade westward to Second Avenue & Wilbury Road, & from Old Shoreham Road southward to the seafront. Major features include the station, engine shed, locomotive & carriage works, Holland Road Halt, & railway lines & tramways; St Nicholas church, St Peter`s church, Hotel Metropole, Grand Hotel, Bedford Hotel, part of West Pier, Brunswick Lawns, Adelaide Crescent, Brunswick Square, Regency Square, Montpelier Crescent, St Anns Wells Gardens, All Saints church Hove, cricket ground, St Thomas church, The Wick, Wick Hall, Gloucester Place, Royal Pavilion, The Lanes (not all named), the Dome, etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Brunswick Place, Kings Road & Western Road. West Worthing in 1896 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Worthing is covered on two maps. The West Worthing map covers the area from Christchurch Road westward to Elm Grove & to the boundary with Goring parish. Much of this map is in the parish of Heene &

Includes:: St Botolph`s church there. Features include West Worthing & Worthing stations, Heene Windmill, numerous nursery greenhouses, Westbrooke, Park Crescent, Marine Parade, Shelley Road, Holy Trinity church, St Andrew`s church, Christ Church. Street directory extracts on the reverse show entries for Clifton Road, Crescent Road, Heene Road, Marine Parade, Montague Street & Richmond Road. The Worthing map continues coverage eastward & stretches to the end of Brougham Road & to Seamill Farm. Features include the pier, Chapel Road, South Street, St Paul`s church, Brighton Road (where Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest), Infirmary, Homefield Park, more nursery greenhouses, Poors Ten Acres, St Georges church. Directory extracts on the reverse show street entries for Brighton Road, Chapel Road, Marine Parade, Marine Place, South Street, Warwick Road & Warwick Street. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Brighton & Hove in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Ditchling, Hassocks, Henfield, Hurstpierpoint, Portslade-by-Sea, Shoreham-by-Sea, Southwick & Upper Beeding. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey

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Brighton & Hove Pevsner Architectural Guide, in a series of publications begun with the express aim of providing up-to-date guides to the most significant buildings in every part of the country, suitable for both general reader & specialist. Each volume provides an introductory overview of the architecture of the area, followed by a descriptive gazetteer arranged alphabetically by place. Whilst cathedrals & their furnishings, great country houses & their parks form the grand set pieces, the books demonstrate the enjoyable diversity of architecture in the British Isles in accounts of rural churches & farmsteads, Victorian public buildings & industrial monuments. A continuing programme of publication keeps the series up-to-date with new information on older buildings & recent architecture while maintaining the tradition of Pevsner`s own succinct accounts. Each book has over 100 photographs, mostly specially commissioned, numerous maps & plans, a glossary & indexes. ...

Map No. 198, Brighton & Lewes, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, including Worthing, Horsham, Haywards Heath, Crawley, Burgess Hill, Uckfield, Newhaven, Seaford, Shoreham-by-Sea, Turners Hill, Forest Row, Sinfold, Balcombe, Sharpthorne, Nutley, Ardingly, Handcross, Slinfold, Southwater, Broadford Bridge, Cowfold, Partridge Green, Hurstpierpoint, South Chailey, Ashington, Henfield, Clayton, Ringmer, Glyndebourne, Woodingdean, Stayning, Findon, & part of the Low Weald. Edition E2; Publication Date May 2011 This title is also available on our website in a waterproof & tear-resistant version. Maps in this series are only published folded. Stanfords can also print flat versions of Ordnance Survey maps through the OS Select system, centring the map on a location of your choice & with a picture provided by you on the cover. For more information please click on the link at the bottom of this description. About Ordnance Survey ...

Map No. 198, Brighton & Lewes 1813-1819, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. * Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc.* New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Worthing, Horsham, Haywards Heath, Crawley, Burgess Hill, Uckfield, Newhaven, Seaford, Shoreham-by-Sea, Turners Hill, Forest Row, Sinfold, Balcombe, Sharpthorne, Nutley, Ardingly, Handcross, Slinfold, Southwater, Broadford Bridge, Cowfold, Partridge Green, Hurstpierpoint, South Chailey, Ashington, Henfield, Clayton, Ringmer, Glyndebourne, Woodingdean, Stayning, Findon, & part of the Low Weald.* PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.



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Map No. 198, Brighton & Lewes 1813-1920 (3-map set), in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring. Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines. Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Worthing, Horsham, Haywards Heath, Crawley, Burgess Hill, Uckfield, Newhaven, Seaford, Shoreham-by-Sea, Turners Hill, Forest Row, Sinfold, Balcombe, Sharpthorne, Nutley, Ardingly, Handcross, Slinfold, Southwater, Broadford Bridge, Cowfold, Partridge Green, Hurstpierpoint, South Chailey, Ashington, Henfield, Clayton, Ringmer, Glyndebourne, Woodingdean, Stayning, Findon, & part of the Low Weald. PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series centring the map on a location of your choice. For more information please click on the link below.



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