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Stapley Road, HOVE, BN3 7FF

A residential road that links Old Shoreham Road, the A270, to Hangleton Road, the A2038. The road was developed as far as Martin Road in the 1920s with the remaining section north to Hangleton Road completed in the late 1940s. The Knoll Estate is located in the former northern portion of the parish of Aldrington which was once three open fields called The Knowle East, The Knowle West and The Knowle North according to its 1840 tithe map. The area was developed by Hove council from 1926 and mostly completed by 1939, the remaining undeveloped part at the northern end of Stapley Road was finished in the late 1940s.

Built in the 1950s on Hudson's Tip, a former rubbish dump. Access is via footpath from Stapley Road and Rowan Avenue to the north and another that follows the former trackbed of the Dyke Railway from Hove Cemetery to the south. The park includes two junior football pitches, a green belonging to Hangleton Bowls Club immediately beyond the pavilion in view, an enclosed basketball court and a children's playground. The houses on the right face onto Rowan Avenue and were constructed in the 1930s.

This is a relatively small park on ground once used by the branch railway line to Devil's Dyke.

A residential road that links Elm Drive to Hangleton Road that is northbound only, southbound traffic head down Elm Drive which runs parallel to the east. Built in the 1930s on land that was once part of the parish of Aldrington.

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

Tucked away on the footpath that links Stapley Road to Rowan Avenue via Knoll Recreation Ground is this rather utilatarian building that is currently occupied by Little lambs Kindergarten. The building dates from the 1940s and is marked on the 1951-64 OS maps as a central kitchen and on a 1986 edition as a training centre and looks as if it was once council owned.

A residential road that links Hangleton Road, the A2038, with Stapley Road that was laid out in the 1920s, but not developed until the 1940s. The Knoll Estate is located in the former northern portion of the parish of Aldrington which was once three open fields called The Knowle East, The Knowle West and The Knowle North according to its 1840 tithe map. The area was developed by Hove council from 1926 and mostly completed by 1939, the remaining undeveloped part at the northern end of Stapley Road was finished in the late 1940s.

A cul de sac off Godwin Road that was built in 1948. The Knoll Estate is located in the former northern portion of the parish of Aldrington which was once three open fields called The Knowle East, The Knowle West and The Knowle North according to its 1840 tithe map. The area was developed by Hove council from 1926 and mostly completed by 1939, the remaining undeveloped part at the northern end of Stapley Road was finished in the late 1940s.