| [DIRECTORY] | SUSSEX | [HOOE] |
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HOOE - is a parish, about 6 miles south-west from Battle, 10 west from Hastings,11 east-north-east from Eastbourne, 10 south-east from Hailsham and about 4 1/2 north-east from Pevensey station on the Hastings branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, in the Eastern division of the county, Ninfield hundred, Hastings rape and county court district, Battle petty sessional division, Hailsham union, 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, south porch, a small chapel on the north side and a low and massive embattled western tower containing 5 bells: there is a piscine in the south wall and the church affords 250 sittings. The register dates from the year 1531. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent charge £249, gross yearly value £308, with residence and 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of Oswald Forster Routh esq. 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. 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 Okeburn, its principal cell in England. The Earl of Ashburnham, the Hon. Thomas Allnut Brassey, J. P. of Battle, who is lord of the manor, Sir James Duke, bart., and Edward Pennefather, esq. are the largest landowners. The soil is loam: subsoil, sand. The chief crop is wheat and hops. The area is 2,473 acres; rateable value £2,877; 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 Little Common & telegraph office at Catsfield.
National School (mixed), for 120 children; average attendance, 80; Charles Samuel Thomas Smith, master.
| Routh, Rev. Cuthbert M. A. The Lodge | Dodson E. & S. grocers & linen drapers. Post office | Lemmon, Arthur, farmer, Broad street, Green farm |
| Routh, Oswald Foster, The Lodge | Errey, John, wheelwright | Pilbeam, Jane (Mrs), carpntr and whlwrght |
| COMMERCIAL | Fisher, Wm. Farm bailiff, Court lodge | Pilbeam, John, Lamb P. H., Sewers bridge. |
| Boniface Steph. & Son, farmers, Allscross | Foord, George, farmer, Sadler′s farm | Saunders, Henry, farmer, School farm |
| Brand, John Edmund, C. C. farmer, Grove farm | Gander Thomas, farmer, School farm | Simmons Hugh, miller |
| Brooks, Henry S., Red Lion P.H. | Hayward Richard William, assistant overseer. The Mount | Smith James. Butcher |
| Carden, Rachael (Mrs.), smith & coal mer. | Lemmon, Geo. farmer, Longdown farm | Veness, Jas., butcher & farmer, Sandhl frm |
| Carey, John, bricklayer |
TRADES
| Page 2461 | Court Directory | Routh O. F. The Lodge, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2215 | Bricklayers | Carey, John, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2521 | Butchers | Smith, James, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2521 | Butchers | Veness, J. Sandhill frm, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2523 | Carpenters | Pilbeam, Mrs Jane, Hooe, battle S.O. (This is, incorrectly, given as Hove) |
| Page 2530 | Coal & Coke Dealers | Carden, Mrs., Rachel, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2540 | Drapers | odson E. & S. Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2545 | Farmers | Boniface Stephen & Son, Hallscross, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2545 | Farmers | Brand, John Edmund, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2548 | Farmers | Foord, George, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2548 | Farmers | Gander, T., School farm, Hooe, battle, S.O. |
| Page 2550 | Farmers | Lemmon, A. Broad st., Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2551 | Farmers | Lemmon, G., Longdown, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2553 | Farmers | Saunders, Henry, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2555 | Farmers | Veness, James, Hooe, battle, S.O. (This is, incorrectly, given as ′Hove′) |
| Page 2557 | Farmers′ Bailiffs | Fisher, Wm., Court ldg., Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2595 | Millers | Simmons, Hugh, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2613 | Publicans | Lamb, John Pilbeam, Sewers bridge, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2615 | Publicans | Red Lion, Henry S. Brooks, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2629 | Smiths, Blacksmiths, & Farriers | Carden, Mrs. Rachael, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2648 | Wheelwrights | Errey, John, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 2649 | Wheelwrights | Pilbeam, Mrs. Jane, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
