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.
| ISBN: | 9780850339819 |
| Publication date: | 16th September 1995 |
| Author: | Eddie Scott |
| Publisher: | Phillimore & Co. an imprint of The History Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Genres: |
Local history |