"Brighton Camp" is also known as "The Girl I Left Behind Me", "Blyth Camps", "Bride in Camp", "Spaílpín Fánac". It is English - an air, Morris dance, march, or country dance. In Morris Dancing "Brighton Camp" is usually a handkerchief dance. The name Brighton is derived from a compound Saxon name (Beorhthelm's tun, or "Beorhthelm's farm or village"). The town of Brighton is in east Sussex and was originally a fishing village. William Chappell in Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859) dates the song to 1758, reasoning from the fact that there were encampments on the south coast of England in 1758 and 1759 to watch for the French fleet during the Seven Years War of 1756-1763. When the English navy defeated the French later in 1759 the watch camps were dismantled. The air was printed in a MS. of c. 1770. Except for the Morris dance flourishes, the tune is "The Girl I Left Behind Me" in this section.