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In the Domesday Book of Brighton called Bristelmestune. In June 1514 Brighthelmstone was burned to the ground by French mercenaries during the war between England and France. Survived only Church of St. Nicholas and some of the city's neighborhoods. The first known drawing Brighthelmstone was made in 1545 and depicts what is believed to be a raid in 1514. 
During the 1740s and 1750s Dr. Richard Russell Lewis began to prescribe to their patients treated seawater at Brighton. By 1780 construction began on the terraces and soon Gregorian fishing village quickly became a fashionable resort of Brighton. George IV after his first visit in 1783 contributed to the construction of the city. He spent a lot of time in the city, and even ordered the construction of an exotic and expensive Royal Pavilion. 
Construction of the railway in 1841 made ​​Brighton a place of pilgrimage for many tourists and vacationers for a hundred years, from 1801-1901 years. the city's population increased from 7000 to 120 000 people. In the Victorian era were built Large Hotel (1864), West Quay (1866) and the Palace Pier (1899). 
In 1883, in Brighton opened established engineer Magnus Volk (Magnus Volk), electric railway, one of the first electric railway in the world; Wolf would like to extend this road to the nearby Rottingdean, but because of the terrain along the shore road construction would require the creation of recesses and viaducts, so Wolf has decided to create a brand new vehicle. Title «Daddy Long Legs» 

promotional poster (Daddy long legs, kosinozhka) comes from the English name of the spider harvestmen. The new railway, the construction of which began in June 1894, was laid directly on the seabed. Road consisted of two railway tracks gauge 82.4 cm (8.5 ft 2), each located at a distance of 5.47 m (18 feet) apart. Segments rails approx. 9 m (30 ft) bolted 15 × 2 cm (6 × ¾ inches) to the concrete blocks the size of 1,5 × 0,9 m (5 ft 3), laid on the bottom of every 76 cm (2 ½ feet). The length of this road was about 4.5 km. She connected the pier, arranged on the pier Madeira Drive in Brighton with a specially built pier in Rottingdean length 91 meters (100 yards). The railroad was removed at 50-90 m from the shoreline, but at low tide the rails were naked. However, in September 1900, it was decided to organize in the area of ​​Brighton new breakwaters, which would require the transfer of underwater railway. Magnus considered this to be too expensive, and in 1901 prevented the construction of the breakwater of the tracks were dismantled, and then an unusual railway was closed completely. 
The only thing left from the road today - it's covered with algae concrete blocks, which once lay rails. Before survived only concrete blocks, railway sleepers, which can be seen at low water. 
Magnus Wolf died in 1937. His electric road, closed during the war, working again in April 1948. Trains stopped going on it in 1952, but the remains of the line continues to attract tourists. 

Strong waves can overturn "kosinozhku" 
Catenary masts After many changes made between 1873 and 1952, the area of urban neighborhoods Brighton increased significantly from 7 square kilometers in 1854 to 58 square kilometers in 1952, new housing estates appeared in other areas including Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Coldean and Whitehawk. Capital expansion in 1928 has affected the nearby villages pache (Patcham), Ovingdin (Ovingdean), Rotingdin (Rottingdean) and Vudingdin (Woodingdean), which today are parts of the city. 
In 1997 Brighton & Hove joined together to form the unitary authority of Brighton and Hove, which in turn gave city status herself Queen Elizabeth II. 
University of Brighton, in spite of its recent history (founded in 1968 and received university status in 1992), included in the top twenty universities in the UK