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Brighton — formerly “Little Cambridge”
An attested claim that Brighton was formerly named “Little Cambridge”. Brighton's name before its 1807 separation from Cambridge. Attested by the English Wikipedia article on Brighton, Boston. The archive records the attestation; it does not rule on it.
Brighton was formerly named Little Cambridge
This is an attestation. The archive records who asserts it, since when, and on what evidence. It does not rule on whether it is true.
- Subject
- Brighton
- Predicate
former_name- Attested by
- English Wikipedia
- Attestor kind
- reference work
- Attested since, as stated
- as at the date of retrieval
- Attestation strength
- attested — a count of independent attestations, never a truth value
- Variant note
- Brighton's name before its 1807 separation from Cambridge.
Evidence
English Wikipedia, “Brighton, Boston”, retrieved 2 September 2026
Initially Brighton was part of Cambridge, and known as "Little Cambridge".
· source
Related records
- about — Brighton
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:claim:brighton-former-name-little-cambridge
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/claim/brighton-former-name-little-cambridge
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/claim/brighton-former-name-little-cambridge.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- English Wikipedia — source of record
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (open)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- Brighton,_Boston
- Attribution
- Wikipedia contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Rights as stated
- Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the plain-text extract of the attesting article from the MediaWiki API | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | verify | searched the article text for the name at a word boundary; a candidate the source did not contain was refused and the refusal recorded | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | quote | took the first sentence containing the name, unaltered, as the evidence for this claim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |