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New BrightonNew Brighton is a seaside resort on the Wirral in Cheshire. It effectively forms part of the neighbouring town, Wallasey. New Brighton stands at the north-eastern tip of the Wirral Peninsula, where sandy beaches line the shore of the Irish Sea. The town was created specifically to draw holidaymakers, and named after the most famous of the seaside resort towns; Brighton in Sussex. The town was founded when in 1830, a Liverpool merchant bought much of the land at Rock Point, which enjoyed views out to sea and across the Mersey and had a good beach. His aim was to develop it as a desirable residential and watering place for the gentry, in a similar way to Brighton, one of the most elegant seaside resorts of that Regency period. Later it came to attract millworkers from the heaving industrial towns of south Lancashire. (Read more) |