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Maple Gardens, HOVE, BN3 7JU

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

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 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.

Situated at the northern end of English Close.

From Maple Gardens.

Hove fire station, English Close, Hove, East Sussex with a Volvo pumping appliance outside.

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

Offices of the outsourcing company is tucked away behind Image well back from the road. The building dates from the 1960s.

Small cul-de-sac off Old Shoreham Road filled with business units and Hove Fire Station. Prior to the early 1960s this area was a market garden and nursery.