Kelly′s Directory - 1882

HOOE - is a parish 6 miles south-west from Battle, 10 west from Hastings, 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 Hastings, first division, archdeaconry of Lewes and diocese of Chichester. The Church of St. James is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, small chapel on the north side, and a low and massive embattled tower containing 5 bells. The register dates from the year 1531. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £415, with residence and 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of Alfred Jones, esq. and held since 1857 by the Rev. Naasson Maning, B.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. 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 A.D. 1096 and 1139, there was shortly after erected here an alien priory of Benedictine monks, attached to that foreign house, though sometimes reckoned as a parcel of its principle cell in England, Okeburn. The Earl of Ashburnharn, Sir Thomas Brassey, K.C.B., M.P, who is lord of the manor, and Sir James Duke, bart, are the largest landowners. The chief crops are wheat and hops. The area is 2,473 acres; rateable value £3,373; and the population in 1881 was 470.

Parish Clerk, George Harmer

POST OFFICE. - Mrs. Dodson, receiver, Letters arrive from Battle S. O. at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched at 5.15 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Bexhill.

National School, Joseph Ridel, master