HOOE - is a parish, about 3 1/2 miles from Sidley station, on the Bexhill branch of the Southern railway, and about 5 miles north-east from Pevensey station on the Hastings branch of the same 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, county court district and petty sessional division of Battle, union of Hailsham, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Hastings and diocese of Chichester. The Ashburn stream passes through the parish. The church, probably dedicated to St. Oswald, King of Northumbria, is of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, and has a tower containing 5 bells ; the church was partially restored in 1889-90, the work being completed in 1899, and the bells recast, at a total cost of £2,200: the church affords 210 sittings. The register dates from. the year 1609. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £305, with 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Fisher and the Misses Routh, and held since 1921 by the Rev. Charles Albert Weeks M.A., of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and B. D. of Durham University. 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. There is a village hall. The soil is loam ; subsoil, sand. The land is mostly in pasture. The area is 2,473 acres; the population, in 1921, was 474.
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
PRIVATE RESIDENTS | Carter, Charles Robert, farmer, New Wood House farm & Oldbury farm | Hutchinson, fredk, Hairdrssr |
Hayward, Richard William, The Mount | Claxton, Edgar Seymour Chas., farmer, New Lodge farm. | Inman, John, farmer, Longdown farm |
Sargent, George, The Lodge, Broad Street Green | Clifton, Hy., smallholder, Fuchsia cot. | Mitchell, Albert, farmer, Hopes farm |
Smith, Eustace H., Parsonnage farm | Collins, Jn., farmer, High Ho. | Morris, Saml, farmer, Akehurst fm |
Weeks, rev. Charles Albert, M. A., B. D. (vicar), Highfields | Constant, Philip., farmer, Holmes farm, T.N.Cooden 72 | Pevensey, Poultry Farm Ltd. (E. H. Smith, mangr), Parsonnage farm. T.N. Cooden 380 |
Wilson, Mrs. The Grove | Cornford, William, smallholder | Pilbeam, Frank, farmer, Dewby's farm |
COMMERCIAL | Dennett, Harold, Lamb P.H., Sewers bridge | Pilbeam Jas, market gardener |
Marked thus #farm 150 acres or over | Dodson, Samuel, grocer, Post Office | Pocock, William, market gardener |
Baker, Arth. Frank, F.R.H.S. landscape gardener, Poplar cott | #Gander Bros, farmers, School farm | Sargent, Horace & Son, market gardnrs |
Baker, Thos, market gardener | Gander, Leonard, farmer, Glebe cott | Sheather Bros, farmers, Castlehurst farm Horace & Arthur, mrkt grdnrs |
Barton, Harry J., Red Lion P. H. T.N. Ninfield 29 | Hayes, Frank, blacksmith | Smith, Bernard, Rt., butcher |
Carey, Wm., farmer, Olives farm | Hayes, Jn., farmer | Smith, chas., boot repr |
Hoad, Archie Edwd., carrier, Eaton's fm. | Stapley, Alfd., frmr, Hall's Cross frm |