The Brighton and Hove Built-up area or Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton

conurbation A conurbation is a region consisting of a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas which, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area. In most ...

has a population of 474,485 (2011 census), making it

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's 12th largest conurbation. This was an increase of around 3% from the 2001 population of 461,181. Named the

Brighton Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...

Worthing Worthing ( ) is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 113,094 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Br ...

Littlehampton Littlehampton is a town, seaside resort and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. It is south south-west of London, west of Brighton and ...

conurbation by the

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for the 2001 census and Brighton and Hove Built-up area for the 2011 census, the area has also been known as Greater Brighton, although the

Greater Brighton City Region The Greater Brighton City Region is an area in the south of England centred on Brighton and Hove, incorporating seven local government districts in East Sussex and West Sussex. The Greater Brighton Economic Board was created in April 2014 to o ...

that was created in 2014 from seven local authorities in Sussex covers a much larger area. The conurbation dominates

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and

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, with around one in three of Sussex's population living within its boundaries. It is also the second largest conurbation in the South East region of

and the second largest conurbation on the

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coast, in either

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. In both of these cases the Brighton conurbation trails the Southampton and Portsmouth conurbation. The Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation was the largest on the Channel before Portsmouth and Southampton's conurbations were combined for much official data analysis after the 2011 census. This conurbation is also the UK's most densely populated major conurbation outside

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with . This is due to its tight boundaries between the

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to the north, and the English Channel to the south together with less land devoted to domestic gardens in English seaside towns than in inland towns. It is a multi-centred conurbation and the eastern part, the city of

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, has approximately half of its population.

Places in the conurbation

The total distance in a straight line from the western edge of Littlehampton to the eastern edge of Saltdean is between . Along the shore or by road, it is slightly further. The conurbation's population is made up of the following settlements as defined by the

: Notes: * Hove and Brighton were separate subdivisions for the 2001 census but are combined in one Brighton and Hove subdivision for the 2011 census. * In the 2011 census the Shoreham subdivision includes Sompting and Lancing. * Findon was not included as part of the Brighton and Hove built-up area for the 2011 census. * Saltdean and Rottingdean were not included as part of the Brighton and Hove built-up area for the 2011 census and instead form a built-up area called

Saltdean Saltdean is a coastal village in the city of Brighton and Hove, with part (known as East Saltdean) outside the city boundary in Lewes (district), Lewes district. Saltdean is approximately east of central Brighton, west of Newhaven, and south ...

/ Woodingdean with a population of 22,729. * In the 2001 census the Littlehampton subdivision included Angmering and Ferring. In the 2011 census the Littlehampton subdivision still includes Angmering but Ferring is part of the Worthing subdivision. There are some small gaps that help maintain distinct identities of places in the conurbation, although in places the settlements coalesce: * Goring Gap between Ferring and Goring/

* Sompting Gap between

and Sompting * Brooklands Park between

and Lancing * Lancing Gap between Lancing and Shoreham

Nearby places

Settlements very close to the conurbation but not included in the official statistics include the towns of

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and Telscombe (separated from Brighton by Telscombe Tye, a small open space, population 23,000), Newhaven (joined to Peacehaven, population 11,000) and Seaford (separated from Newhaven by the River Ouse, population 22,000).

Climate

The coastal towns of Sussex with neighbouring

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and south

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including the settlements that make up the Brighton and Hove built-up area are the sunniest places in the United Kingdom. The coast has consistently more sunshine than the inland areas: sea breezes, blowing off the sea, tend to clear any cloud from the coast. The sunshine average is approximately 1,900 hours a year; this is much higher than the UK average of 1,340 hours a year.

References

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Places in the conurbation

Nearby places

Climate

See also

References