A01=Eddie Scott
Author_Eddie Scott
borough of hove
Brighton
Category=NHD
Category=WQH
East Sussex
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erosion
french raiders
horsfield
Hove
local history
Phillimore
Product details
- ISBN 9780850339819
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 185 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 1995
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hove was a fishing village with few people as recently as 1801. Thirty-four years later Horsfield, in his history of the county, described it as ‘a mean and insignificant assemblage of huts’.
On a shoreline subject to erosion and plundering French raiders, it lacked a market for its few families. From this unpromising beginning the town developed with broad avenues and tidy streets which possess a certain amount of style. Due to Victorian entrepreneurs and the search for fashionable places, the village swallowed up the surrounding land to become the Borough of Hove.
