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Kemp Town

Kemp Town proper noun: a suburb of Brighton, East Sussex, England (OS TQ3203).

Proper noun

Kemp Town

  1. A suburb of Brighton, East Sussex, England (OS TQ3203).
    • Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s.1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 832

Origin of Kemp Town

Named after Thomas Read Kemp.

Questions about Kemp Town

What does Kemp Town mean?
Kemp Town means a suburb of Brighton, East Sussex, England (OS TQ3203).
What part of speech is Kemp Town?
Kemp Town is a proper noun.

Words near Kemp Town in the dictionary

  1. kemonos
  2. kemosabe
  3. kemosabes
  4. kemosabi
  5. kemp
  6. Kemp Town
  7. Kemp's loggerhead
  8. Kemp's ridley
  9. Kemp's ridley sea turtle
  10. Kemp's ridley sea turtles
  11. Kempa

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