Once a fishing village called
Brighthelmstone, Brighton
developed as a fashionable
watering-place after Dr Richard
Russell moved his practice here in
1754, to supervise his sea-water
cures.
By 1848 the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway were keen to promote Brighton as a cross-channel port;
they funded the Brighton & Continental Steam Packet Co, though it was soon found that Newhaven
Named after the Steyne in Brighton, this delightful and relatively unchanged long narrow square was laid out in the
1820s and is lined by modest seaside houses, many with verandahs and balconies which
Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road
and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.
Between
the golfers and the clubhouse
was Burdon Lane, which until
the 1950s joined the Brighton
Road as it crossed the Downs
by way of a dangerous blind
junction.
This view looks
east, and shows the bridge
across Grange Vale, a road
that connects the Brighton
Road with the residential areas
of Grange Road, Worcester
Road and Mulgrave Road.
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