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Elm Drive, HOVE, BN3 7JS

A residential road that links Holmes Avenue to Hangleton Road that was developed in the 1930s in the northern part of the former parish of Aldrington.

A short residential road that links maple Gardens to Elm Drive that was developed in the 1930s in the northern end of the former parish of Aldrington.

A residential road that links Elm Drive to Acacia Avenue that was developed in the 1930s.

The two pairs of semi-detached houses on the left were built in the 1930s and occupy the site of Gibbets Farm. Originally a barn where two labourers Edward Howell and James Rooke hid in 1792 to share the proceeds of the letters they had just robbed from a mail boy on the Old Shoreham Road in nearby Goldstone Bottom, now Hove Park. Both were soon identified, arrested and put on trail in Horsham where they were found guilty and sentenced to hang. Their bodies were gibbeted overlooking the scene of their crime where Rooke's mother would often be found waiting for the bones to drop so she could collect and give the body a proper burial. Tennyson's peom 'Rizpah' is alleged to have been based on the story. Subsequently, the barn became known as Gibbets Barn which sometime in the mid 19th century had two cottages built next to it. One of the last tenants, Samuel Holmes, converted them into a single dwelling becoming the farmhouse of Gibbets Farm. The farm operated until 1930 when the land was sold for housing and subsequently demolished to make way for the houses in Elm Drive. See Barns, Gibbet Farm (Date unknown) - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume37/source/jg_37_107.html Farmhouse, Gibbets Farm (1912) - http://regencysociety-jamesgray.com/volume37/source/jg_37_109.html

From Maple Gardens.

Located on the eastern side of the station whose offices are out of shot to the left. Built around 1963 it occupies the former trackbed of the Dyke Railway which operated from 1887 to 1938.

A residential road that connects Old Shoreham Road to Hangleton Road that was built in stages during the 1930s. This section as far as the old parish boundary between Aldrington and West Blatchington had been completed by the early 1930s.

Directly opposite, Image is the local suppliers for Apple products who also have a small store in the centre of town. Both the store and small unit on the far side lie above what was once the Dyke railway that operated between 1887-1939 which went under the road at this point. It has long been filled in and much of the course is now built over. Old Shoreham Road is the A270.

Former small factory that appears to have been subdivided into a number of smaller business units. The factory was built in the post war era on the site of a filled in cutting that carried the former Dyke Railway that operated from 1887 to 1938.

Situated at the northern end of English Close.