Hove Barrow

A magnificent Bronze Age burial mound use to sit in the middle of Hove, and it even gave Hove its name, as it comes from the Old Danish word Hof – which means burial ground. There were a few burial mounds dotted between the South Downs and the shore in Hove. But, the biggest by far, was the mound situated close to where Palmeira Square sits now. It stood twenty feet tall, and was so big some people didn’t think it was a burial mound at all but just an unusual hillock.