Hove Edge



Hove Edge is the area of Calderdale between Hipperholme and Brighouse.

It changed from largely agricultural to a quarrying district with the advent of Joseph Brooke Limited in the 1840s.

It was a part of the parish of Lightcliffe. In 1893, it became a part of the Borough of Brighouse. In 1894, it became a part of the Parish of Brighouse.

During World War II, a bomb fell near the football ground. A German bomber returning to Germany from a mission on Merseyside/Manchester had 1 bomb left. Flying over Hove Edge, he saw a light, where someone at a quarry had left a blackout curtain open, and released the bomb. No-one was injured.

The name comes from hove and means the escarpment where ground ivy grows

Some sites, sights and other entries for Hove Edge


Aspinall's Quarries, Hove Edge

Black Horse, Hove Edge
Broad Oak Farm, Hove Edge
Broad Oak, Hove Edge
Broad Oak, Hove Edge
Brow Hill Industrial Estate, Hove Edge

Cornaro Works, Hove Edge

Dusty Miller, Hove Edge

Finkil Chapel, Hove Edge
Fold End Estate, Hove Edge

Giles House, Hove Edge

Harley Head Farm, Hove Edge
Hove Edge Bowling Club
Hove Edge Conservative Club
Hove Edge Co-operative Store
Hove Edge Cricket Club
Hove Edge Liberal Club
Hove Edge Local Board
Hove Edge Merry Boys

Hove Edge Post Office
Hove Edge Quarry
Hugh House Farm, Hove Edge

Ivy House Farm, Hove Edge

Nab End Quarry, Hove Edge
Nab End, Hove Edge
Nether House, Hove Edge

Old Pond, Hove Edge

Rose Cottage, Hove Edge

Saint Chad's Chapel of Ease, Hove Edge
Saint Chad's Church, Hove Edge
Saint Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Hove Edge
Spout House, Hove Edge

United Free Methodist Church, Hove Edge

Yew House, Hove Edge
Yew Mount, Hove Edge

Zion Methodist Free Chapel, Hove Edge


See Sunderland Estate



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