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Brighton

Stands at the intersection of Brighton's busiest thoroughfares is Brighton Clock Tower, built in 1888 for Queen Victoria's jubilee in East Sussex. The land area of Brighton expanded from 1,640 acres (7 km2) in 1854 to 14,347 acres (58 km2) in 1952 because of boundary changes. Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Coldean and Whitehawk were the acquired areas where the new housing estates were established.

Founded at the same time were Elm Grove and Patcham wards, bringing the total to 19. A campus research intensive university between Stanmer Park and Falmer, four miles (6 km) from Brighton centre, is the University of Sussex, established in 1961 as the first of the plate-glass universities in East Sussex.

The Metropole Hotel (now Hilton) Grand Hotel, the West Pier, and the Brighton Palace Pier were many of the major attractions built in the Victorian era. Although distributed across the whole of Brighton in East Sussex, deprivation in Brighton is more concentrated in some areas than others. In Whitehawk, Moulsecoomb, and Hollingbury areas of Brighton, the highest concentration of deprivation can be found, but is also around the St. James's Street and Eastern Road areas.

Divided into named sections by groynes-the first of which were completed in 1724, all the beaches were owned by Brighton council. The Boundary, Norfolk, Bedford, Metropole, Grand (referring to the four hotels with those names), Centre, King's, Old Ship, Volk's, Albion, Palace Pier, Aquarium, Athina (where the MS Athina B ran aground), Paston, Banjo, Duke's, Cliff, Crescent and Black Rock are the names eastwards from the Hove boundary. A medical school known as Brighton and Sussex Medical School was formed by the universities of Sussex and Brighton in East Sussex in 2003.

The Kemptown Carnival and the Hanover area, similarly has a "Hanover Day", are the annual street festivals of Kempton area. Postponed in 2012 due to a lack of European funding, an inaugural White Nights (Nuit Blanche) all-night arts festival took place in October 2008 and continued for 4 years. Brighton's professional association football team is Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club in East Sussex.

Held at the Preston Park Velodrome, the oldest velodrome in the UK built in 1877, is the amateur track cycling. The former Brighton Polytechnic that has a student population of 20,017 of which 80% are undergraduates is the University of Brighton in East Sussex. Throughout the year, motoring events take place on Madeira Drive, a piece of roadway on Brighton's seafront. To host the world's oldest motor race, the Brighton Speed Trials, which has been operating since 1905,is why it was originally constructed.