HOOE is a parish, about 5 miles north-east from Pevensey station on the Hastings branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, 6 south-west from Battle, 10 west from Hastings, 11 east-north-east from Eastbourne and 10 east from Hailsham, in the Rye division of the county, hundred of Ninfield, rape of Hastings and county court district and petty sessional division of Battle, Hailsham union, Hastings rural deanery and archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester. The Ashburn stream passes through the parish. The church of St. James, which appears to have been renamed St. Oswald, is of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style and has a tower containing 5 bells; the church was partially restored in 1889-1890, the work being completed in 1899, and the bells re-cast. at a total cost of £2,200 : the church affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1531. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200, with 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of and held since 1889 by the Rev. Cuthbert Routh M.A. of Queen′s College, Oxford. A fair for cattle is held here on May 1st. An alien priory of Benedictine monks attached to the Abbey of Bec, was founded here about 1139. The Earl of Ashburnhamn & Viscount Hythe, who is lord of the manor, are the largest landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, sand.
The chief crop is wheat. The area is 2,473 acres; rateable value £2,971; the population in 1911 was 448.
Sexton, John Collins.
Post Office. - Samuel Dodson, sub-postmaster. Letters through Battle. The nearest telegraph & money order office is at Ninfield, 2 miles distant.
Letter Boxes - Broad Street Green & The Grove
Public Elementary School (mixed) for 100 children: John James Newport, master; Mrs. Emily Newport, infants' mistress
Carrier -- John Clifton, to Hastings, tues. & fri. & Bexhill, thurs
| Brand, John Edmund, The Grove | Clifton, John, carrier | Mitchell, Albert, farmer, Broad street |
| Hewitt, Misses, Oldbury Farm house | Collins, Charles, carpentar, High house | Mitchell, Fredk, farmer, Court lodge |
| Jeffery, William, High-field house | Collins, John, smallholder, Broad st. | Morris, Samuel, farmer, Akehurst fm |
| Routh, Rev. Cuthbert M. A. (Vicar), The Lodge | Deeprose, Rufus, market gardener | Morris, Thos. farmer. Saddlers′ farm |
| COMMERCIAL | Dennett, Geo., Lamb P.H., Sewers brdg | Pilbeam, Frank, farmer, Dewby′s farm |
| Baker, Thomas, market gardener | Dodson, S. grocer & draper. Post Office | Pilbeam James, market gardener |
| Barton, Harry, Red Lion P. H. | Drake, Charles. farmer, Broad Street | Sargent, Horace & Son, market gardeners |
| Beaney, Absalom, fruit grower | East, John Alfd, farmer, Oldbury frm | Sheather, Horace & Arthur, mrkt grdnrs |
| Boniface, Henry. Farmer, Halls Cross | Fordham, Percy J., frmr, Sandhill frm | Smith, James. butcher |
| Brand, Jn. Edmund, farmer, Grove fm | Gander Bros, farmers, School farm | Taylor, Horace, builder |
| Carey, Wm., farmer, Olives farm | Glessing, Wm. P., farmer, Holmes frmSchool farm | Weston, Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer, Castlehurst farm |
| Hayward Richd Wm., assist. overseer for the parish of Hooe, The Mount |
