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Stapley Road, HOVE, BN3 7FG

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.

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

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

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.

A cul de sac off Stapley Road that was built in 2005 on the site of Knoll Infants School which operated here from 1956 until closure after amalgamation in 2001. The original infants school had moved from a site on Bellingham Crescent. 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 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 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.