Editing Brighton (section)

===Boundaries and areas===
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|-
! Date from
! Parish area<ref name="NEB34–35">{{Harvnb|Collis|2010|pp=34–35.}}</ref>
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|{{circa}} 11th century
|{{cvt|1640|acre|ha}}
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|31 October 1873
|{{cvt|1640|acre|ha}}
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|1 October 1923
|{{cvt|1640|acre|ha}}
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|1 April 1928
|{{cvt|12503|acre|ha}}
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|1 April 1952
|{{cvt|14347|acre|ha}}
|-
|31 March 1972
|{{cvt|15041|acre|ha}}
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|1 April 1993
|{{cvt|15140|acre|ha}}
|-
|1 April 1997{{NoteTag|Area of the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove.<ref name="NEB35" />}}
|{{cvt|21632|acre|ha}}
|}
At the time of the [[Domesday Book|Domesday survey]] in 1086, Brighton was in the [[Rape of Lewes]] and the [[Hundred (county division)#England|Hundred]] of Welesmere. The new Hundred of Whalesbone, which covered the parishes of Brighton, [[West Blatchington]], [[Preston Village, Brighton|Preston]] and [[Hove]], was formed in 1296. Parishes moved in and out several times, and by 1801 only Brighton and [[West Blatchington]] were included in the Hundred.<ref name="VCH56959">{{cite web |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/Sussex/vol7/p241 |title=A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 7 – The Rape of Lewes. The hundred of Whalesbone |editor-last=Salzman |editor-first=L.F. |editor-link=Louis Francis Salzman |year=1940 |website=[[Victoria County History]] of Sussex |publisher=British History Online |page=241 |access-date=27 September 2011 |archive-date=26 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926032607/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/p241 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In its original form, Brighton parish covered about {{cvt|1640|acre|ha}} between the English Channel, Hove, Preston, [[Ovingdean]] and [[Rottingdean]]. The borough (but not the civil parish) was first extended from 31 October 1873, when {{cvt|905|acre|ha}} was annexed from Preston civil parish. In 1894 the part outside the borough became Preston Rural civil parish and Preston civil parish continued in the borough. On 1 April 1889 Brighton became a county borough.

On 1 October 1923, {{cvt|94|acre|ha}} were added to Brighton borough and to Preston civil parish from Patcham parish: Brighton Corporation was developing the [[Moulsecoomb]] [[Council house|estate]] there at the time. On 1 April 1928, Brighton civil parish was extended to include Preston civil parish. On the same date the borough grew by nearly five times by adding Ovingdean and Rottingdean parishes in their entirety and parts of [[Falmer]], Patcham and West Blatchington; it also exchanged small parts with Hove municipal borough. All the areas added to the borough became part of Brighton civil parish.<ref name="NEB34">{{Harvnb|Collis|2010|p=34.}}</ref> From 1 April 1952, more of Falmer and part of the adjacent [[Stanmer]] parish were added; 20 years later, land and marine territory associated with the new [[Brighton Marina]] development also became part of Brighton. Except for a small addition of rural land in 1993 (from [[Pyecombe]] parish), Brighton Borough's boundaries remained the same until it was joined to Hove Borough in 1997 to form the [[Unitary authorities of England|unitary authority]] of Brighton and Hove.<ref name="NEB35">{{Harvnb|Collis|2010|p=35.}}</ref>

The old boundary between Brighton and Hove is most clearly seen on the seafront, where the King Edward Peace Statue (1912) straddles the border, and in a [[Alley|twitten]] called Boundary Passage which runs northwards from Western Road to Montpelier Place.<ref name="AboutBtn57">{{Harvnb|Dale|1986|p=57.}}</ref> There is a [[Listed building|Grade II-listed]] parish boundary marker stone in this passageway.<ref name="NHLE-1380005">{{National Heritage List for England|desc=Boundary Stone Approximately 40 Metres North of Western Road, Boundary Passage, Brighton|num=1380005|grade=II |access-date=19 August 2013}}</ref> Between Western Road and the seafront, the boundary runs up Little Western Street (pavement on eastern side, in Brighton), but it is not visible.<ref name="AboutBtn57"/> Northwards from Western Road, it runs to the west of Norfolk Road, Norfolk Terrace, Windlesham Road and Windlesham Gardens in the [[Montpelier, Brighton|Montpelier]] area, then along the south side of Davigdor Road to [[Seven Dials, Brighton|Seven Dials]]. From there it runs along the west side of Dyke Road as far as Withdean Road in [[Withdean]], at which point it crosses Dyke Road so that the section north of that is part of Hove parish. The boundary continues to follow Dyke Road towards [[Devil's Dyke, Sussex|Devil's Dyke]] on the South Downs.<ref name="B&HMap-1960">{{cite map |publisher=G.I. Barnett Publishers & Cartographers |title=Barnett's Official Street Plan: Brighton and Hove |year=1960 |scale=1:15840 |cartography=[[Ordnance Survey]] |section=G9,G8,H7,G7,G6,F6,F5,E4,D3,C3 |location=Ilford}}</ref>

{{Geographic Location
|title=Neighbouring districts and places
|Northwest=[[Hove, England|Hove]]
|North=[[Gatwick Airport]]
|Northeast=[[East Sussex]]
|West=[[Worthing, England|Worthing]]
|Centre=Brighton
|East=[[Eastbourne]]
|Southwest=[[Isle of Wight]]
|South=[[English Channel]]
|Southeast=[[France]]
}}