The City of Brighton was a

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seated at the

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sea-side township of

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

from 1858 until 1997.

History

The Corporate Town of Brighton was proclaimed on 25 November 1858 by severance from the

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, the latter later changing its name to Marion to avoid confusion. The town boundaries extended from the modern Yarrum Grove, Boundary Road and Oaklands Road (

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), in the north, to Kingston Park reserve,

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, Scholfield Road (

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) and Arthur Street ( Seacliff Park) in the south. On the west it was bounded by the coastline and on the east by the modern Brighton Road (Somerton Park), MacArthur Avenue (

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), Winton Avenue (Hove), Neath Avenue ( South Brighton) and Davenport Terrace ( Seacliff Park). The inaugural councillors named in the 1858 proclamation were: Francis Corbet Singleton, Pitt Cobbett, George William Chinner, William Home Popham, and William Voules Brown. The municipality of Brighton ultimately became the City of Brighton when it crossed the required population threshold in the early 1900s. Brighton and its northern coastal neighbour, the

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, were amalgamated in 1997 to become the

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, which retained the two civic centres at Brighton and Glenelg.

Councillors

In 1919 Grace Benny was elected to Brighton council, becoming the first woman to be elected as a councillor in a local government body in South Australia.

References

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