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Hove

An East Sussex town, /hoʊv/ Hove is west of Brighton, its neighbour that is larger, which it forms Brighton and Hove with, the authority that is unitary. The parish's eastern end development had increased the population by 1831 to 1,360, but, with Thomas Horsfield, the historian, in 1835 describing it as 'an assemblage of huts that is insignificant', this brought to Hove village few economic benefits.

At the time of the Norman Conquest including the territory covered by Hove, 1st Earl of Surrey, William de Warenne, in the Rape of Lewes held land; his colours were blue and gold, represented by the pattern in the background of the shield. As are Aldrington, Portslade and West Hove stations, Hove is on the West Coastway Line. Between Hove and Brighton, a stop at Holland Road was in operation from 1905 to 1956.

St. Anne's Well Gardens and Hove Park include parks in Hove. Approximately the same size as a china tea cup and made of Baltic Amber that is translucent red, the artefact can be seen in the Hove Museum and Art Gallery. The antiquary John Warburton, a traveller, wrote, 'I passed through a village called Hove which the sea is daily eating up and of being deserted is in a fair way; but the church being from the shore a good distance and large may perhaps escape' in 1723.

With contraband being stored in the St. Andrew's Church (partially repaired), Hove smugglers became notorious. A coastguard station was opened at the end of Hove Street in 1831, next to The Ship Inn as part of the concerted drive by Parliament to combat smuggling. At Portslade-by-Sea in 1871, due to demand that was spiralling, in Shoreham Harbour a works that was large was opened, and in Brighton and Hove all gas manufacture by 1885 had been transferred there.

Sussex County Cricket Club, England's oldest county club, used in Hove, the Royal Brunswick Ground, situated on the Third and Fourth Avenues site roughly, from 1848 to 1871. In 1883, Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish nationalist leader and Home Rule MP, used to visit his lover, the married Kitty O'Shea, at the house she rented in Medina Villas, Hove. Referring to the St Leonard's, St Andrew's, and Hove and Aldrington, parish churches that are ancient include the saltire of Saint Andrew and the leg-shackles of Leonard of Noblac.

Along with Blatchington Mill Sixth Form College, Hove Park Sixth Form Centre, the Connaught Centre, (BHASVIC) Sixth Form College of Brighton, Hove and Sussex, formerly Grammar School of Brighton, Hove & Sussex, is a further education place. Hove was home to Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.'s Goldstone Ground until 1997.