Template:Infobox England place with map UA Hove is a town on the south coast of England immediately to the west of Brighton. The former towns form a single conurbation together with 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 & Hove in 1997. In 2000 the combined towns officially attained city status.

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.

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.

Main article: Transport in Brighton and Hove

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).

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. Branching off close to Aldrington was formerly a branch line to Devil's DykeWith a stop at the 'devils dyke trail' in Hangleton. The path, by West Hove golf club,which leads all the way to the devils dyke,has the old railway sleepers once used on the railway tracks on either side of the path.

Additionally, there was briefly a "halt" between Hove and Brighton, at Holland Road.

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.

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.

Main article: List of notable Brighton & Hove inhabitants

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.^[1]

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.

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.

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.

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.

• 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.^{[citation needed]} Hove is also the area where the majority of Brighton & Hove's language students reside.^{[citation needed]}

• Landmarks and notable buildings of Brighton and Hove

• 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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