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Rowan Avenue, HOVE, BN3 7JF

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.

A residential road that links Rowan Avenue to Elm Drive that was built in the 1930s on land belonging to the former parish of Aldrington.

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.

Located at the junction with Rowan Avenue which heads off to the left whilst Elm Drive continues to the right, both part of a one way system between here and Hangleton Road. The parade of shops include a general store, dentist, Christian bookshop, Indian takeaway and a motor factors. Built in the mid 1930s on what was the northern end of the former parish of Aldrington.

Heading south east to join another that links Old Shoreham Road to Rowan Avenue that runs through the northern part of Hove Cemetery. The footpath here follows the trackbed of the former Dyke Railway that was opened in 1887 as an excursion route for tourists wishing to visit Devil's Dyke. The branch left the main west coast line at Aldrington (Originally known as Dyke Junction Halt) curving to the north, then west, then north again as it crossed open downland to a terminus situated next to Dyke Farm that was half a mile from the Dyke and required a walk up a steep gradient that was 200 foot below the summit. Two intermediate halts were added, the first in 1891 to serve Brighton & Hove Golf Club, called Golf Club Halt, and the other in 1933 to serve the newly built estates to the north which was called Rowan Halt. By then, however, the line was fast losing money to the motorbus trade which was able to drop visitors off right next to the Dyke and the line was closed on New Year's Eve 1938. The branch's alignment can be made out clearly north of the bypass but has largely been filled in to the south.

Route of the old railway line to Devils Dyke curving behind houses in Rowan Avenue.

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

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