Brighton East

Brighton East is a residential suburb 13 km south-east of central Melbourne. It is east of Hampton Street and between North and South Roads. Its northern section is crossed by the Elster Creek (which runs into the Elwood Canal), and it was better watered than Henry Dendy's Brighton township nearer the foreshore. By 1843, barely three years after Henry Dendy had his first land sales at Brighton, there were enough farmers settled east of Dendy's village to call their area 'Little Brighton'.