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Northern Brighton Walking Tour
Guide Location: England » Brighton
Guide Type: Self-guided city tour
# of Attractions: 9
Tour Duration: 2 hour(s)
Transportation Mode: by foot
Travel Distance: 4.5 km
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Author: leticia
In the northern part of Brighton, you will find a number of interesting attractions. Here you will find old St Mary's Church, 13th-century St Peter's Church, historic Preston Manor House, Preston Park, Booth Museum of Natural History, St. Anne's Well Gardens and other amazing places. This tour will help you to discover the northern part of the city.
Tour Stops and Attractions
St Mary's Church
1) St Mary's Church
St. Mary's Church is situated on Surrenden Road, close to Preston Park in Brighton. The church was constructed between 1910 and 1912. This religious building was built of Kentish Ragstone and features Cornish slate roof, oak door, and high turret with bell on its top.
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Preston Manor (Thomas-Stanford Museum)
2) Preston Manor (Thomas-Stanford Museum)
Situated near St. Peter's Church and Preston Park, Preston Manor represents an historic house in Brighton, decorated in Edwardian style. Dating back to the 18th century, it features a rich collection of ceramics, furniture, glass, clocks, silver, decorative art and other objects which belonged to the Stanford family.
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St Peter's Church
3) St Peter's Church
St Peter's Church is a former Anglican church in the Preston Village area of Brighton. The 13th-century building, standing on the site of two older churches, was restored in the late 19th century and again after a serious fire in 1906. It was the parish church of Preston until 1908, when the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church gained this status. The Diocese of Chichester declared St Peter's redundant in 1990, and it is now owned by the Churches Conservation Trust. It has Grade II listed status, reflecting its architectural and historical importance.
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Sight description based on wikipedia
Preston Park
4) Preston Park
Preston Park is a park near Preston Village in the city of Brighton and Hove. It is one of Brighton's largest parks, with 63 acres (250,000 m2) of lawns, formal borders and rose gardens, bowling greens, tennis courts and a small pond. It was bought in 1883 by Brighton Corporation (then Brighton's local authority) from Mr William Bennett-Stanford who owned the Preston Manor estate and had begun to develop the park as enclosed pleasure grounds. The park was formally declared open on November 8, 1884.
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Sight description based on wikipedia
Booth Museum Of Natural History
5) Booth Museum Of Natural History
Situated on Dyke Road, Booth Museum of Natural History was established by Edward Booth in 1874. At this museum you will learn more about natural history and see a rich collection of British birds, insects, butterflies and other natural habitats. At the museum’s shop, you can purchase books, postcards and souvenirs.
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Berrys Furniture
6) Berrys Furniture
Berrys Furniture is a small, second-hand furniture shop situated on Dyke Road. It houses a wide collection of renovated antique furniture including desks, dining tables, chairs, dressers, wardrobes, mirrors and clocks. The staff is friendly and will help you to make a good choice.
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St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church
7) St Mary and St Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church
St Mary and St Abraam Church is a Coptic Orthodox Church in Hove, in the English city of Brighton and Hove. The Coptic community in Brighton and Hove was founded in 1990; four years later it moved to its present site on Davigdor Road, on the Brighton/Hove border. The church is based in a much older building: the former church of St Thomas the Apostle, an Anglican church built in 1909 by the Brighton-based architecture firm Clayton and Black. The tall red-brick building, in Early English style, has a large pointed-arch window in its eastern face and five smaller windows across the northern face, where the entrance is situated.
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Sight description based on wikipedia
St. Anne's Well Gardens
8) St. Anne's Well Gardens
St. Ann's Well Gardens is a park in Hove, East Sussex about half a mile from the shore. The park is renowned for its chalybeate (iron bearing) spring, which is now named St. Ann's Well. In this case, the name "St. Ann" does not refer to any saint. Instead, the name was apparently based on a myth of Annafrieda, a Saxon lady whose lover was murdered. Her tears miraculously became the Chalybeate Spring which is now called St. Ann's Well. St. Ann's Well Gardens has many native and exotic trees. It also has a scented garden that allows the visitor to experience many different smells.In addition to the scented garden, the park has playgrounds for children with swings, slides etc.
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Sight description based on wikipedia
The Studio Shop
9) The Studio Shop
Opened in April 2007, the Studio Shop is a cultural and shopping venue that supports and promotes local artists and crafts folk. Here you will find original ceramics, vases, jewellery, scarves, textiles, picture frames, cards, prints, lampshades and other creative objects.
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