Hoe or Hoo, Norfolk
Historical Description
Hoe or Hoo, a village and a parish in Norfolk, 2½ miles N by E from East Dereham station on the G.E.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, East Dereham. Acreage, 1471; population, 185. Hoe Hall is a modern mansion standing in well-wooded grounds, and Gorgate Hall is a mansion of brick, dating from the early part of the nineteenth century, standing in a park of about 100 acres. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of East Dereham, in the diocese of Norwich. The church is a small building of flint and stone in the Early English style. There are some small charities and a poor's allotment of 12 acres for cutting fuel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Norfolk | |
Hundred | Launditch | |
Poor Law union | Mitford and Launditch |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Norfolk Record Office, have images of the Parish Registers for Norfolk online.
Findmypast, in conjunction with Norfolk Record Office have the following parish records online for Hoe:
Baptisms | Banns | Marriages | Burials |
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1547-1903 | 1547-1903 | 1559-1902 | 1547-1902 |
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hoe or Hoo from the following:
Maps
Online maps of Hoe or Hoo 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 Norfolk newspapers online:
- Norwich Mercury
- Norfolk Chronicle
- Diss Express
- Thetford & Watton Times and People's Weekly Journal
- Norfolk News
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Norfolk 1563, 1589, and 1613 is available on the Heraldry page.