HOOE is a parish, about 5 miles north-east from Pevensey station on the Hastings branch of the Southern 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 com¬pleted in 1899, and the bells recast, at a total cost of £2,200: the church affords 250 sittings. The register dates from. the year 1609. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £348, 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 Col¬lege, 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, rateable value £3,241; the population, in 1921, was 474.
Sexton - George Carey.
Post Office. - Samuel Dodson, sub-postmaster. Letters through Battle. The nearest telegraph & money order office is at Ninfield, 2 miles distant.
Public Elementary School (mixed) for 100 children: Arthur Fuller, master, Miss Dorothy Frost, infants’ mistress; Miss Maud Ellis, assistant mistress
Conveyance - Motor omnibuses to and from Bexhill daily.
Carrier - Archie Edward Hoad,to Bexhill & Hastings, mon, tues, thurs, and fri
Police Station - William Thomas Simmons, constable.
| PRIVATE RESIDENTS | ||
| Carter, Mrs, New Wood house | Hayward, Richard William, The Mount | Hewitt, Misses, Oldbury house |
| Jeffrey, Capt. John Gwyn, Parsonnage farm | Weeks, Rev. Charles Albert M.A. B.D. (vicar) |
| COMMERCIAL | ||
| Baker, Arth. Frank, F.R.H.S., landscape | Cornford, William, smallholder | Morris, Eliz. (Mrs), frmr, Saddler frm |
| gardener, Poplar Cot | Dennett, Harold, Lamb P.H., Sewers bridge | Morris, Samuel, farmer, Akehurst fm |
| Baker, Thomas, market gardener | Dodson, Samuel, grocer, Post Office | Pilbeam, Frank, farmer, Dewby's farm |
| Barton, Harry J., Red Lion P. H. | Gander Bros, farmers, School farm | Pilbeam James, market gardener |
| T.N. Ninfield 29 | Gander, Leonard, farmer, Lord's ho. | Pocock, William, market gardener |
| Carey, Wm., farmer, Olives farm | Hayes, Frank, blacksmith | Sargent, Horace & Son, market gardnrs |
| Carter, Charles Robert, farmer, New Wood | Hayes, Jn., farmer | Sargent, Geo.,farmer, Grove farm |
| House farm and Oldbury farm | Hoad, Archie Edwd., carrier, Eaton's fm. | Sheather Bros, farmers, Castlehurst farm |
| Claxton, Edgar Seymour Chas., farmer, | Inman, John, farmer, Longdown farm | Smith, Bernard, Rt., butcher |
| New Lodge farm. | Kent, Harry H., farmer, Court lodge, | Smith, chas., boot repr |
| Clifton, Hy, smallholder, Fuchsia Cot | T.N. Cooden 89 | Stapley, Alfd., frmr, Hall's Cross frm |
| Collins, Chas., carpntr. High ho. | Mitchell, Albert,farmer, Hopes farm | Taylor, Horace, builder |
| Constant, Philip., farmer, Holmes farm, T.N.Cooden 72 | ||
