Editing Hove (section)

===Buses===
[[File:Conway Street Bus Garage, Conway Street, Hove (March 2020) (4).JPG|thumb|[[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company]] has a depot and workshop at Conway Street.]]
Many bus routes serve central Hove, and Church Road/New Church Road and Blatchington Road/Portland Road are important bus corridors.<ref name="BusStopMap">{{cite web|url=https://images-brightonhove.passenger-website.com/2022-04/Hove%20Centre%20Bus%20Stops%20updated%20210422.pdf|title=Hove centre bus stops|date=April 2022|publisher=[[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company Ltd]]|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807155321/https://images-brightonhove.passenger-website.com/2022-04/Hove%20Centre%20Bus%20Stops%20updated%20210422.pdf|archive-date=7 August 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>  Most services are operated by [[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove]], a bus company which has been owned by the [[Go-Ahead Group]] since November 1993.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p10">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, p. 106.}}</ref>  Routes include the 1 and 1X to [[Whitehawk]] and [[Mile Oak]], the 2 to [[Shoreham-by-Sea]], [[Steyning]] and [[Rottingdean]], the 5, 5A and 5B to the [[Hangleton]] estate and the [[Hollingbury]] and [[Patcham]] estates in Brighton, the 6 to [[Brighton railway station]], the 7 to [[Brighton Marina]], the 21 to the Goldstone Valley estate and Brighton Marina, the 25 to the Universities of [[University of Sussex|Sussex]] and [[University of Brighton|Brighton]], the 46 to [[Southwick, West Sussex|Southwick]] and Hollingbury and the 49 to [[Moulsecoomb]].<ref name="BusStopMap"/>   [[The Big Lemon]] operates a circular route serving Portslade, the Knoll Estate and Hangleton<ref name="BigLemon16">{{cite web|url=https://thebiglemon.com/16-1/|title=Route 16/16A|year=2023|publisher=[[The Big Lemon]]|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804024855/https://thebiglemon.com/16-1/|archive-date=4 August 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> and another serving Knoll Estate and Hangleton and continuing to Brighton railway station, central Brighton, Brighton Marina, Rottingdean and [[Saltdean]].<ref name="BigLemon47">{{cite web|url=https://thebiglemon.com/47-1/|title=Route 47/47A|year=2023|publisher=[[The Big Lemon]]|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330040622/https://thebiglemon.com/47-1/|archive-date=30 March 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>  [[Stagecoach South]] operates the [[Coastliner 700]] route through Hove, serving Brighton to the east and Shoreham-by-Sea, Worthing and [[Littlehampton]] to the west, with connections to [[Bognor Regis]], [[Chichester]] and [[Portsmouth]].<ref name="Coastliner700">{{cite web|url=https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south/unpublished-coastliner|title=The Coastliner 700, your sunshine service to the sea!|publisher=[[Stagecoach South]]|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014052038/https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south/unpublished-coastliner|archive-date=14 October 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>  Several [[National Express Coaches|National Express]] coaches on route 025 (Worthing–London) serve Hove each morning, calling at a stop on the A259 near the [[King Alfred Leisure Centre]].<ref name="NEX025">{{cite web|url=https://timetables.nationalexpress.com/routes/NX/025/Worthing-London/I|title=025|publisher=[[National Express Coaches|National Express]]|year=2023|access-date=18 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323075135/https://timetables.nationalexpress.com/routes/NX/025/Worthing-London/I|archive-date=23 March 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

Hove's first bus service ran from the Ship Inn on Hove Street to [[Black Rock (Brighton and Hove)|Black Rock]] near [[Rottingdean]] and started on 11 May 1853. Seven return journeys ran daily. Local businessman A.C. Elliott became a licensed bus operator in 1879 with ten vehicles, 12 conductors and 13 drivers, running services between Hove and central Brighton. Other operators soon started running buses in competition, and the Hove Commissioners "[kept] a tight rein on things" by issuing and renewing licences once a year. From 1901, horse-drawn buses began to be replaced with petrol-driven vehicles and, from 1908, by experimental electric buses as well.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p22–23">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, pp. 22–23.}}</ref>  [[Thomas Tilling]] became a major operator in Hove after gaining licences for Portslade–Brighton routes in 1912.   He operated from premises on Holland Road until new garages and offices were built on Conway Street in 1916.<ref name="EncH&Pv14p24–26">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 14, pp. 24–26.}}</ref>  The company was renamed the Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Company in 1935,<ref name="EncH&Pv2p105">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, p. 105.}}</ref> and the Conway Street premises were rebuilt in 1939–40 to the design of H.R. Starkey.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p107">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, p. 107.}}</ref>  By 1927 [[Southdown Motor Services]] was another major local operator: Hove Council licensed 100 of its vehicles for local and longer-distance work, and the company's main works was at Portslade. It became part of the [[National Bus Company (UK)|National Bus Company]] in 1968 along with the Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Company. As a result, the latter's works at Conway Street closed in 1969.<ref name="EncH&Pv13p83–84">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 13, pp. 83–84.}}</ref>  The companies separated again in 1986 and the former Tilling operations became the [[Brighton & Hove (bus company)|Brighton & Hove Bus and Coach Company]], now the city's main operator. The Conway Street premises were retained as a bus garage.<ref name="EncH&Pv2p104–107">{{Harvnb|Middleton|2002|loc=Vol. 2, pp. 104–107.}}</ref>