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HOOE - is a parish, about 4 1/2 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 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 Ashburn stream passes through the parish. The church of St. James, which appears to have been renamed St. Oswald about 1894, is of stone, chiefly in the Perpendicular style and has a tower containing 5 bells; the church was partially restored in 1889-90, at a cost of £1,091, and is now (1899) being completed, and the bells re-cast, and affords 250 sittings. The register dates from 1531. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £200 with residences and 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of Oswald Foster 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. An alien priory of Benedictine monks, attached to the Abbey of Bec, was founded here about 1139. The Earl of Ashburnharn, the hon. Thomas Allnut Brassey, who is lord of the manor, and Edward Pennefather esq. are the largest landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil, sand. The chief crop is wheat. The area is 2,473 acres; rateable value £2,389, the population in 1891 was 480.
Parish Clerk, Edgar Taylor
Note! In the extract below, the infants mistress is given as Mrs Mary Newport but this is an error as she was my grandmother and her name should be Emily Newport
Post Office. - Samuel Dodson, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from Battle S. O. at 8.45 a.m. & 2.45 p.m.; dispatched at. 5.10 p.m & 10 a.m.; Sundays, 10 a. m. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. The nearest money order & telegraph office is at Catsfield, 4 miles distant.
National School (mixed) for 130 children: average attendance 86; John .James Newport, master; Mrs. Mary Newport, infants mistress.
| Routh, Rev. Cuthbert M. A. (Vicar), The Lodge | Dodson E. & S. grocers & drapers. Post office | Morris, Thomas & Luther, farmers, Saddlers farm |
| Routh, Oswald Foster, The Lodge | Errey, John, carpenter & wheelwright | Pilbeam, Jane (Mrs), carpenter and wheelwright |
| COMMERCIAL | Gander Thomas, farmer, School farm | Pilbeam, Jn., Lamb P. H., Sewers bridge |
| Barton, John, carrier & coal dealer | Grant Wm. farmer, Broad St. farm | Roberts, James, farmer, Sandhill |
| Boniface Stphn & Son, frmrs, Allcross | Hayward Richard William. assistant overseer. The Mount | Saunders, Henry, farmer, School farm |
| Brand, John Edmund, C. C. farmer, Grove farm | Lemmon, George & Arthur, farmers, Holmes farm | Smith James. butcher |
| Brook, Henry Sidney, Red Lion P.H. | Martin, John., farmer, Akehurst | Veness, Edith, (Mrs), shopkeeper |
| Carden, Rachael, Mrs., smith & coal mer | Mitchell Jabez, farmer. Court Lodge | Veness, Margaret, (Mrs), butcher |
TRADES
| Page 723 | Butchers | Smith, James, Hooe, Battle, S.O |
| Page 724 | Butchers | Veness, Mrs. Margt, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 726 | Carpenters & Joiners | Errey, John, Hooe, Battle, S. O. |
| Page 726 | Carpenters & Joiners | Pilbeam, Mrs. Jane, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 727 | Carriers | Barton, John, Hooe, Battle, S. O. |
| Page 734 | Coal & Coke Dealers | Barton, John, Hooe, Battle S.O. |
| Page 735 | Coal and Coke Merchants | Rachel Carden (Mrs), Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 751 | Drapers | Dodson, E & S., Post office, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 761 | Farmers | Boniface, Stephen & Son, Allcross, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 761 | Farmers | Brand, John Edmund, C.C, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 764 | Farmers | Gander, Thomas, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 765 | Farmers | Grant, William, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 767 | Farmers | Lemmon, Geo. & A., Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 768 | Farmers | Martin, J., Akehurst, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 768 | Farmers | Mitchell, Jabez. Court lodge, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 768 | Farmers | Morris, T. & Luther, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 770 | Farmers | Roberts, J., Sandhill, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 770 | Farmers | Saunders, Henry, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 789 | Grocers | Dodson, Ernest, & Samuel, Post office, Hooe, Battle S. O. & Bodle street grn., Hailsham, S.O. |
| Page 843 | Publicans | Lamb, John Pilbeam, Sewers Bridge, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 844 | Publicans | Red lion, Henry Sidney Brook, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 859 | Shopkeepers | Veness, Miss Edith, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
| Page 862 | Smiths, Blacksmiths | Carden, Mrs. Rachel, Hooe, Battle, S.O. |
