Hove
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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.Transport
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 the other station, Aldrington. Branching off close to Aldrington was formerly a branch line to Devil's Dyke. Additionally, there was briefly a "halt" between Hove and Brighton, at Holland Road.Education
Hove is home to three main places of secondary education: Cardinal Newman Catholic School, Hove Park Secondary School and Blatchington Mill High School. Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC) is a dedicated place of further education, along with the Connaught Centre in Hove; Hove Park Sixth Form Centre and Blatchington Mill 6th Form College.A notable feature of Hove is the number of schools for foreign students of the English language.
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.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.
Notable inhabitants
Main article: List of notable Brighton & Hove inhabitantsHistory 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.Hove Museum is free to visit and the Amber Cup is on display. Along with the cup were also found three objects, with the four denoting a king. The remains of the king, who was buried in the magnificent burial mound, were cast unceremoniously into a deep hole to form the grounds of a rosary. It is claimed this man was the first king of Britain, recorded as Brutus by Geoffrey of Monmouth, although modern writer R. Darlow calls him Brythos.Second millenia AD
Hangleton Manor is a 16th century flint manor building, very well preserved, though now used as a pub, and surrounded by a 20th century housing estate.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.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.
Modern era
Much 1950s housing redevelopment in Hove took place on the outskirts of west Hove, Hangleton and the Knowle estate. This was mostly in the form of terraced and detached council housing.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.
Trivia
- Hove is often referred to by locals as "Hove, actually". This is because when a questioner asks a Hove resident whether they live in Brighton, they are reputedly met with the response "No, Hove actually!".
- Cricketer Ted Alletson enjoyed his one and only notable moment of success at Hove's cricket ground... and damaged it in the process.
- Central Hove, particularly the Brunswick Town area, has long been a liberal stringhold and both central Hove and West Hove have long been shedding their conservative image.[[Citing sources citation needed]] Hove is also the area where the majority of Brighton & Hove's language students reside.[[Citing sources citation needed]]
References
See also
External links
- [Official City Transport site with live bus times, car parks, and further information]
- [The weird cycle lanes of Brighton and Hove]
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