Knoll Recreation Ground, Hove
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Knoll Recreation Ground, Hove
Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 5 Jan 2017
The northern tip of the recreation ground following the footpath that links Rowan Avenue to Stapley Road. The park was built in the 1950s on the site of an old rubbish tip and utilised part of the old track bed of the Dyke Railway whose course followed the hedge on the right. The railway was built for tourists in 1887 but suffered from the poor siting of the terminus which would eventually lose trade in the 1920s and 30s to motorbuses which dropped visitors at the very edge of the Devils Dyke. Consequently the branch was closed on New Year's Eve, 1938. Much of the track bed can still be made out north of the bypass, however, to the south bridges and cuttings have been filled in or removed and subsequently built over. The building with the white roof is Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.842385
Longitude
-0.197423