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New Brighton is a seaside resort and suburb of Wallasey, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral in Merseyside, England, at the northeastern tip of the Wirral peninsula. It has sandy beaches which line the Irish Sea and mouth of the Mersey, and the UK's longest promenade. At the 2011 Census, the population was 14,859.
New Brighton was founded in 1830 as a fashionable watering place and posh residential dormitory for the mercantile elite of Liverpool society. Developer James Atherton had already built...
During the latter half of the 19th century, New Brighton developed as a very popular seaside resort serving Liverpool and the Lancashire industrial towns, and many of the large houses were converted to inexpensive hotels.
New Brighton. Click on the map for other historical maps of this place. In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described New Brighton like this: BRIGHTON (New), a village and a chapelry in Wallasey parish, Cheshire.
Apr 6, 2024 · Within three years of Atherton buying the land, a steam paddle-wheel ferry service was introduced from Liverpool to what was starting to be called New Brighton after Brighton, the famous South coast watering hole.
Mar 23, 2020 · New Brighton, on the Northern corner of the Wirral peninsula, is a great place to do some landscape archaeology! New Brighton developed from a coastal backwater to a thriving and popular coastal resort during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Nov 2, 2012 · The New Brighton Tower was patterned on the world-famous Eiffel Tower in Paris. It all started when a newly formed company called The New Brighton Tower and Recreation Company Limited, with a share capital of £300,000 decided to purchase the Rock Point Estate of over 20 acres.
