Hove
Coordinates: 50°50′07″N 0°10′33″W / 50.8352, -0.1758
Population	91,900[1]
OS grid reference	TQ285055
Unitary authority	Brighton & Hove
Ceremonial county	East Sussex
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BRIGHTON
Postcode district	BN3
Dial code	01273
Police	Sussex
Fire	East Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Hove
European Parliament	South East England
List of places: UK • England • East Sussex

Floral Clock, Palmeira Square

Hove promenade facing towards Brighton

Hove is a town on the south coast of England immediately to the west of its larger neighbour, Brighton. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast. As part of local government reform Brighton and Hove were merged to form the borough of Brighton and Hove in 1997. In 2000 the conjoined towns officially attained city status. Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x800, 11 KB) Summary Description: A blank map of the United Kingdom, with country outline and coastline; contact the author for help with modifications or add-ons Source: Reference map provided by Demis Mapper 6 Date: 2006-21-06 Author: User... Image File history File links Red_pog. ... 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Hove is between Brighton on the east and Portslade-by-Sea on the west. The pre-1997 borough of Hove, formed in 1974, included Portslade-by-Sea. Portslade is a town in East Sussex, England. ...

Commercial

The town centre received substantial renovation in the late 1990s when the popular George Street was partly pedestrianised. These small shops have recently been joined by the centre's first large supermarket (a Tesco), built on the site of a former gasometer in what has traditionally been an area populated by small locally-owned businesses and smaller branches of national chains. Much concern about the development and its impact was expressed by residents, the local newspaper The Argus, and small locally-owned shops. Tesco plc is a UK-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. ... Gasometer at West Ham. ... The Argus is a local newspaper based in Brighton in East Sussex, with editions serving the city of Brighton and Hove and the other parts of both East and West Sussex. ...

Transport

Main article: Transport in Brighton and Hove

The public transport in Brighton and Hove (on the south coast of England) has a history dating back to 1840. ...

Road transport

Hove benefits from a comprehensive public transport system including buses to all districts, a bus monitoring system accessible via the internet and with displays at some bus stops (a system integrated with Brighton), and taxis which are able to pick up across the city (i.e. in Brighton as well as Hove).

Railways

Hove has two railway stations. Hove railway station has access to the Brighton main line and on to London without the need to go through Brighton railway station. It is also on the West Coastway Line, as is Hove's other station, Aldrington. Additionally, there was briefly a "halt" between Hove and Brighton, at Holland Road. Hove railway station is in Hove in the county of East Sussex. ... The Brighton Main Line is the railway line from London Victoria and London Bridge to Brighton. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Brighton station concourse Brighton railway station serves the city of Brighton in Sussex, on the south coast of England. ... West Coastway Line is the name given by Southern Trains to the services operated by them along the south coast of West Sussex and Hampshire, to the west of Brighton, in the United Kingdom. ...

Branching off close to Aldrington was formerly a branch line to Devil's Dyke The route of the line may be followed along a path alongside West Hove golf club; the path leads all the way to Devil's Dyke, and railway sleepers once used under the tracks may be seen to either side of the path. View from Devils Dyke Devils Dyke is a V-Shaped valley on the South Downs Way in southern England, near Brighton & Hove formed by the waters of the receding ice at the end of the last ice age. ... This article is about the sport. ...

Rail Transport

Hove railway station is located on the West Coastway Line. West of Brighton and east of Aldrington. Hove railway station is in Hove in the county of East Sussex. ... West Coastway Line is the name given by Southern Trains to the services operated by them along the south coast of West Sussex and Hampshire, to the west of Brighton, in the United Kingdom. ... Brighton station concourse Brighton railway station serves the city of Brighton in Sussex, on the south coast of England. ... Aldrington railway station is a railway station in East Sussex, in the village of Aldrington in the former borough of Hove. ...

The station offers frequent services to Brighton which then offers very frequent services to London. The journey from Brighton to Hove takes only a couple of minutes. Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Brighton is located on the south coast of England, and together with its immediate neighbour Hove forms the city of Brighton and Hove. ...

The station is located at the end of Hove Park Villas.

Education

Hove is home to a number of primary schools, and three major places of secondary education: Cardinal Newman Catholic School, Hove Park Secondary School and Blatchington Mill Secondary School. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC) is a dedicated place of further education, along with the Connaught Centre, Hove Park Sixth Form Centre and Blatchington Mill Sixth Form College. Further education (often abbreviated FE) is post-secondary, post-compulsory education (in addition to that received at secondary school). ...

A notable feature of Hove is the number of schools for foreign students of the English language.

Further information: Education in England

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Sport and leisure

The home of Sussex County Cricket Club is at County Cricket Ground, Hove. It is used for county, national and international matches, and has found resurgent popularity with the introduction of Twenty20. Sussex field against Derbyshire at Hove on 24 April 2005 The Arthur Gilligan stand at Hove The Pavilion at Hove Leaving the County Ground at Hove Sussex County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county... The County Cricket Ground, is a cricket venue in Hove, England. ... A view of the Twenty20 match between England and Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl. ...

Until 1997 Hove was home to the Brighton & Hove Albion football club's Goldstone ground. Since this time the football club has been without a permanent home ground.

There are a number of parks in Hove including Hove Park and St. Anne's Well Gardens. The King Alfred Centre, a leisure centre with swimming pool on the seafront, is currently at the heart of major (and locally controversial) redevelopment plans, which, if successful, will mean that Hove will boast the first building in England to be designed by the renowned Canadian architect Frank Gehry. Hove Park is a park within the English city of Brighton & Hove. ... St. ... Frank Owen Gehry (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ...

History and development

Pre-Roman evidence

During 19th century building work near Palmeira Square, workmen removed a significant burial mound. A defining point on the landscape since the 1200 BC, this 20 feet-high tomb yielded – amongst other treasures – the Hove amber cup. Made of translucent red Baltic Amber and approximately the same size as a regular china tea cup, the artefact can be seen in Hove Museum.^[2] This bronze ritual wine vessel, dating from the Shang Dynasty in the 13th century BC, is housed at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Second millennium AD

Hangleton Manor is a 16th Century flint manor building, very well preserved. It is believed to have been built circa 1540 for Richard Bellingham, twice Sheriff of Sussex, whose initials are carved into a fireplace, and whose coat of arms adorns a period plaster ceiling. It is rumoured to be haunted.^{[citation needed]} The Manor is currently serving as a pub-restaurant and is surrounded by the 20th Century Hangleton housing estate. A flint nodule from the Onondaga limestone layer, Buffalo, New York. ... Look up Sheriff in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ... A modern coat of arms is derived from the medi val practice of painting designs onto the shield and outer clothing of knights to enable them to be identified in battle, and later in tournaments. ... Hangleton is an estate in west Hove (part of the city of Brighton and Hove). ...

Regency and Victorian developments

The Brunswick estate on and near the seafront in the east of Hove is made up of large Regency houses. This area was developed far from the original settlement, deliberately on the edge of Brighton, as a fashionable resort in the early 19th Century, during the period of influence of George IV who famously commissioned Brighton's Royal Pavilion. The Brunswick estate originally boasted its own police, riding schools, and a theatre, which it retains. Further west, the seafront forms the end of a series of avenues, named in numerical order beginning with First Avenue, which are mostly composed of fine Victorian villas built as yet another well-integrated housing scheme, featuring mews for artisans and service buildings. Brunswick is an area in the city of Brighton & Hove, England. ... The Regency style of architecture refers primarily to buildings built in Britain during the period in the early 19th century when George IV of the United Kingdom was still Prince Regent, and also to later buildings following the same style. ... George IV (George Augustus Frederick) (12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Hanover from 29 January 1820 until his death. ... Brighton Pavilion redirects here. ... Manchester Town Hall is an example of Victorian architecture found in Manchester, UK. The Carson Mansion is an example of a Victorian home in Eureka, California, USA The term Victorian architecture can refer to one of a number of architectural styles predominantly in the Victorian era. ...

Hove's wide boulevards are in contrast the bustle of Brighton, although many of the grand Regency and Victorian mansions have been converted into flats. Marlborough Court was once the residence of the Duchess of Marlborough, aunt of Winston Churchill. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, c. ... Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician, soldier in the British Army, orator, and strategist, and is studied as part of the modern British and world history. ...

Modern era

Much 1950s housing redevelopment in Hove took place on the outskirts of west Hove, Hangleton and the Knoll estate. This was mostly in the form of terraced and semi-detached council housing. Hangleton is an estate in west Hove (part of the city of Brighton and Hove). ... Cheap, safe, housing owned by the British Government. ...

Hove's seafront and beach, particularly the area starting on the west side of Brighton's West Pier (actually the first 300 metres are in Brighton) have recently become fashionable after some years of decline during the 20th Century. The same is certainly true of the houses of the developments mentioned above, most of which now command relatively high prices, having been in some cases very run down during the 1950s and 1960s.

Miscellanea

• Hove is sometimes referred to as "Hove, actually". According to popular lore, when a questioner asks a Hove resident where they live, they are met with the slightly apologetic response "Brighton... well, Hove actually". It is alternatively used slightly more proudly; when asked "Do you live in Brighton?" one might reply, "No — Hove, actually! " The phrase is used in the 1979 film, The Lady Vanishes, in which the lady of the title states, "I'm on my way back to Brighton. To Hove, actually. It's down the coast a bit!"
• Cricketer Ted Alletson enjoyed his notable moment of success at Hove's cricket ground, with two of his shots damaging the pavilion clock and bar.

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See also

• Landmarks and notable buildings of Brighton and Hove
• List of notable Brighton and Hove inhabitants

The city of Brighton and Hove on the south coast of England, UK has a number of landmarks and notable buildings. ... . ...

External links

• Official City Transport site with live bus times, car parks, and further information
• "The weird cycle lanes of Brighton and Hove"

References and notes