"THE BRITISH GAZETTEER"
"Political, Commercial, Ecclesiastical, and Historical"
"showing"
"the Distances of Each Place from London and Derby - Gentlemen′s Seats - Populations - Inns and Hotels - Postal arrangements - Bankers - Markets Fairs, &c.,"
"Illustrated by a Full Set of County Maps"
"with"
"All the Railways Accurately Laid Down"
"FORMING AT ONCE AN IRON ROAD-BOOK AND COUNTY ATLAS"
*quot;BY B. CLARKE. ESQ."
"Published (for the proprietors) by H.G. Collins, 1852"
HOOE, SUSSEX, a parish in Ninfield hundred, rape of Hastings, union of Hailsham, on the river Ashburn: 72 miles from London (coach road 63), 7 from Battle, 9 from Hastings. Brighton and South Coast Rail, through Lewes to Westham station, thence 4 miles: from Derby, through London, &c., 204 miles. Money orders issued at Battle: London letters delivered 9 a.m.: post closes 7 p.m. The church is an ancient stone edifice, with a nave, chancel, a small chapel on the north, and a low embattled tower. Tanner, in speaking of this place, says - The manor of Hooe being given to the abbey of Bec in Normandy, by Henry, earl of Eu, between A.D. 1096 and 1139, here was (according to the general usage in such cases) shortly after erected an alien priory of Benedictine monks to that foreign house, though sometimes reckoned as parcel of its principal cell in England, Okeburn. It was given by King Henry VI., with Preston, to Eton college; and by King Edward IV. to Ashford college in Kent.. The living (St. James), a vicarage in the archdeaconry of Lewes, diocese of Chichester, is valued at £7. 2s. 6d. : present net income, £235: patron, Sir G. Webster: prospective incumbent, J. O. Routh, 1840: contains 2, 290 acres: 66 houses: population in 1841, 519: assessed property £2,602: poor rates in 1838, £503. 14s. Tithes commuted in 1839. Fair, May 1, for pedlery.
