Place:Hove, Sussex, England

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Hove is a seaside resort in the county of East Sussex, and now a constituent part of the City of Brighton and Hove. Originally a "small but ancient fishing village" surrounded by open farmland, it grew rapidly in the 19th century in response to the development of its eastern neighbour Brighton, and by the Victorian era it was a fully developed town with borough status. Neighbouring parishes such as Aldrington and Hangleton were annexed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In 1997, as part of local government reform, the borough merged with Brighton to form the Borough of Brighton and Hove, and this unitary authority was granted city status in 2000.

Aldrington

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Aldrington is now an area of the city of Brighton and Hove, previously part of the old borough of Hove. For centuries it was meadow land along the English Channel stretching west from the old village of Hove to the old mouth of the River Adur, and it is now a prosperous residential area integrated within Hove.

Hangleton

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Hangleton is a neighbourhood in west Hove. The estate was developed in the 1930s after the Dyke railway was closed.

Within the neighbourhood boundaries lies the oldest building in the city of Brighton and Hove, the 11th century St. Helen's Church. Hangleton Manor, Hove's oldest secular building, dates to the 15th century and is now known as Hangleton Manor Inn.

The wider area surrounding and including Hangleton is commonly referred to as Hangleton and Knoll, with The Knoll being a neighbouring estate. Various community initiatives serve both Hangleton and Knoll, although each has its own identity.

Geography and History

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Hove#Geography and Topography.
For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Hove#History and Development.
These two sections of the Wikipedia article on Hove include numerous facts which may be of interest to the family historian with local connections to the area.

Acreage

The above table is taken from Wikipedia where there are references to the facts noted above. The population of Hove when it merged with Brighton in 2007 was estimated at 91,900.

Research Tips

• The West Sussex Record Office is located in Chichester. Because it holds the records of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester, which covers the whole of Sussex, it has church records relating to both parts of Sussex.
• An on-line catalogue for some of the collections held by the West Sussex Record Office is available under the Access to Archives (A2A) project (a nationwide facility housed at The National Archives, Kew).
• West Sussex Past - database of 2 million records from West Sussex heritage organizations.
• The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies' Sussex Collection (PDF). This is a 9-page PDF naming the files relating to Sussex in their collection-a possible first step in a course of research.
• The National Library of Scotland has a website which provides maps taken from the Ordnance Survey England & Wales One-Inch to the Mile series of 1892-1908 as well as equivalent maps for Scotland itself. The immediate presentation is a "help" screen and a place selection screen prompting the entry of a location down to town, village or parish level. These screens can be removed by a click of the "X". The map is very clear and shows parish and county boundaries and many large buildings and estates that existed at the turn of the 20th century. Magnification can be adjusted and an "overlay feature" allows inspection of the area today along with that of 1900. The specific map from the series can be viewed as a whole ("View this map") and this allows the inspection of the map legend (found in the left hand bottom corner. Becoming familiar with the various facilities of these maps is well worth the trouble.

• GENUKI on Hove
• British History Online. A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6, Part 3, Bramber Rape: North-Eastern Part, section on Hove
• British History Online. A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6, Part 3, Bramber Rape: North-Eastern Part, section on Aldrington
• British History Online. A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6, Part 3, Bramber Rape: North-Eastern Part, section on Hangleton