Hooe, Sussex

Historical Description

Hooe, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village is 4½ miles WNW of Bexhill station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5 from Pevensey, and has a fair on 1 May, and a post office under Battle; money order office, Boreham Street; telegraph office, Catsfield. Acreage, 2473; population, 480. The manor belonged to Henry, Earl of Eu, was given by him about the beginning of the 12th century to the Abbey of Bee in Normandy, and became the site of a Benedictine priory, a cell to that abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £250. The church is ancient; comprises nave, chancel, and N chapel or vestry, with a low massive embattled tower. It is mentioned in Domes-day Book. Hooe, an ecclesiastical parish in Devonshire, taken out of Plymstock in 1866; it consists of the villages of Hooe and Tnmchapel, and the hamlets of Borisand and Batten, and is 4½ miles SE of Plymouth. Staddon, Borisand, and Stam-ford Forts are in the parish. Post town, Plymouth. Population, 1364. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £320 with residence.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hooe from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hooe (St. James))

Maps

Online maps of Hooe are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Sussex newspapers online:

• Mid Sussex Times
• Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal
• Sussex Agricultural Express
• Hastings and St Leonards Observer
• Sussex Advertiser
• Brighton Gazette
• Bexhill-on-Sea Observer