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Kemp Town
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'''Kemp Town''' is a 19th Century residential estate in the east of
Brighton in
Sussex,
England, UK. Kemp Town was conceived and financed by
Thomas Reed Kemp. It has given its name to the larger
Kemptown region of Brighton.
Designed by Charles Busby and Amon Wilde and constructed by
Thomas Cubitt, building work started in 1823 on Arundel Terrace, Chichester Terrace, Lewes Crescent and Sussex Square. Chichester Terrace incorporated the earlier Chichester House. In 1837 Thomas Kemp fled the country to escape his creditors. The project continued under Cubitt with the support of the
Frederick William Hervey, 1st Marquess of Bristol Fifth Earl of Bristol. It was completed in 1855 with Sussex Square larger than
London's
Grosvenor Square, and at the time the biggest housing
crescent in Britain. The original estate is a good example of
Regency architecture.
At around the same time, Brighton's neighbour (and now a part of the same administrative city),
Hove, was expanded to its east, meeting the western edge of Brighton, with the development of the very similar Brunswick Estate, which featured similar though smaller Regency-style properties, and its own market, police station, riding school and (as in Kemp Town) small
mews streets for staff housing. These mews now provide very attractive private accommodation which can fetch similar prices to apartments in the grand houses they once served.
Transport
Kemptown gained a
Kemptown railway station railway station in
1869. The line, featuring two viaducts and a tunnel, was built at great cost partly to block the route for other railways from London. The railway lost out to bus traffic (the route from Brighton was longer than the road journey) and was closed to passenger traffic in
1933, surviving for freight until the 1970s.
External links
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Detailed history of Kemptown
Category:Brighton and Hove
