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| Cove is situated about 1½
miles outside of Farnborough in the north of the county and the
population of both in 1850 was only about 500 but the coming of the
military more or less doubled this population and the government
purchased most of the land in the are in 1853 for the use of the
Military, which made nearby Aldershot the largest town in the North East
of Hampshire. During the construction of the M3 motorway from Southampton to London a lot of reminders of the areas past history was discovered including Neolithic pottery and tools, which led to Cove being confirmed as a settlement during the time of King Alfred, and even in the Domesday Survey it is recorded that it was a residential area with a manor house and that it was a hamlet of the See of Crondal and was eventually passed to the monks at Winchester who retained ownership till the 1800s. Cove Fernberga got is name from the 'fern on the hill' and later this was corrupted to Farnborough (Fern Borough)
With the army becoming well established in the area and mainly at Aldershot it was decided at the beginning of the 1900s that the RAF should move in and the Balloon Factory was opened in 1913. To accommodate the workers there a housing estate was constructed at nearby Cove and along with the civilians and military Cove was soon to became a suburb of the Farnborough Urban District, but the villagers did not think much of this and they fought back and therefore the village kept its own identity. HM Balloon Factory was later to become the Royal Aircraft Establishment with is world renowned, as an experimental air base and also for the Farnborough Air Show.
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