Brighton

About inBrighton

inBrighton is an online guide to the City of Brighton and Hove. It is our intention to create a valuable site providing visitors and local people with information about Brighton and Hove. Over the next year we will be introducing content to provide visitors with up-to-date local news for Brighton, property available for purchase and rent as well as Brighton Tourist Information.

If you own or run a business in the Brighton and Hove area please get in contact with us. Let us show how the increased exposure of your local business to 10’s of thousands of local people. Best of all, for all Brighton and Hove businesses it is completely free!

About Brighton

The town of Brighton is part of the city of Brighton and Hove (formed from the towns of Brighton, Hove, Portslade and several other small villages) in East Sussex on the south coast of England. Whilst Brighton and Hove is not part of the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, but it is still part of the ceremonial county of East Sussex.

Brightons history can be dated back to before the Domesday book, in which it was referred to as the settlement of Brighthelmston. However it was in the 18th Century that Brighton really began to flourish with a reputation of a health resort. The number of day trippers increased with the advent of the railway in 1841. Brighton experienced rapid population growth reaching a peak of over 160,000 by 1961. Contemporary Brighton forms part of a conurbation stretching along the coast, with a population of just under half a million people.

Each year over 8,000,000 tourists visit Brighton. The town also has a substantial business conference industry regularly hosting the Labour Party, Conservative Party and Trade Union annual Conferences. Brighton has two universities and a medical school.