
Brighton
Brighton (including Bagdad and Broadmarsh)
Historic town on the road between Hobart and Launceston
Some Australian towns have the strangest names. Brighton, a
pleasant seaside resort town on the southern coast of England, can
surely have very few similarities with Brighton, a military post,
27 km north of Hobart. Yet, Governor Macquarie, in 1821 when he
visited Van Diemen's Land, decided that this military post should
be named Brighton 'in honour of our present gracious Sovereign's
favourite place of residence'. So, today, on the Midland Highway
between Hobart and Launceston, a world away from the England of
King George IV and the English southern coast, there is a township
named Brighton.