Hooe is a parish, 6 miles south-west of Battle, 10 west from Hastings, and 11 east-north-east from Eastbourne,10 south-east from Hailsham, in the Eastern division of the county, Ninfield hundred, rape and county court district of Hastings, union of Hailsham, rural deanery of Dallington, archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester. The church, reputed to have been dedicated to St Oswald, is an ancient stone edifice, with a low and massive embattled tower with 5 bells, a chancel and nave, and a small chapel on the north side, used as a vestry. The register dates from the year 1531. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £375, with residence, in the gift of Alfred Jones esq. and held by the Rev. Naasson Maning, B. A. of Trinity College, Dublin. Here is a school for boys and girls. A fair for cattle and pedlery is held here on May 1st. The manor of Hooe being given to the abbey of Bec in Normandy, by Henry, Earl of Ewe, between AD 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. Thomas Brassey, esq., M. P. is lord of the manor. The Earl of Ashburnham, Thomas Brassey, esq., and the trustees of the late Sir James Duke, bart., are the largest landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil sand. The chief crops are wheat and hops. The parish comprises 2, 448 acres; gross estimated rental, £3,781; rateable value, £3,35l and the population in 1871 was 496.
Parish clerk, Peter Carey
POST OFFICE. Joseph Cuthbert, receiver. Letters arrive from Hawkhurst at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Bexhill.
Church of England School, Charles Edward Woodcock, master
Maning Rev. Naasson, B. A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL Carden George, smith & coal merchant Carey Peter, bricklayer Cuthbert Joseph, Red Lion & farmer Dodson Jemima (Mrs.), grocer & linen draper |
Errey John, wheelwright Lemmon Levi, farmer, Broad Street Green farm Lemmon Levi, jun. farmer, Saddlers frm Pilbeam John, Lamb, Sewers bridge Pilbeam Robt., carpenter & wheelwright Playon John, farmer, Grove farm |
Pocock William, bailiff to T. Brassey, esq. M.P. Court Lodge
Rich William, farmer & hop grower, Longdown farm Smith James, butcher Swanton Robt, farmer, Sandbank′s farm Veness James, baker & grocer |