HOOE - is a parish, about 3 1/2 miles from Sidley station, on the Bexhill branch of the Southern railway, and about 5 miles north-east from Pevensey station on the Hastings branch of the same 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, rural district of Hailsham, rural deanery of Battle and Bexhill, and archdeaconry of Hastings and diocese of Chichester. The Ashburn stream passes through the parish. Electricity is available. 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 completed in 1899, and the bells recast. Some pre-Reformation stained glass depicts the coronation of Our Lady: there are 210 sittings. The register dates from the year 1609. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £305, with 3 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. Fisher and the Misses Routh, and held since 1935 by the Rev. Archibald Wynne Esmonde Dowse, M. A. of St. John's College, Oxford, who resides in Bexhill. 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. Sir Henry White-Smith, C.B.E., Mr Philip Constant and Messers Gander Bros., are the principal landowners. The soil is loam ; subsoil, sand. The land is mostly in pasture. The area is 2,473 acres; the population, in 1931, was 456.
Post Office. Letters through Battle. The nearest M. O. & T. office is at Ninfield.
Conveyance - Motor omnibuses to and from Bexhill daily, & to Eastbourne, daily, from May to September.
Police Station.
| PRIVATE RESIDENTS | Clewes, Mrs., Hope farm | Pedrick, Edward James, Highfield |
| (For TN's see general list of Private Residents at end of book) | Gwynne-Hughes, Edwd Jas., Highfields | Simmons, George, Hillbrow |
| Abbett, Miss E. M. Saddler's Farm | Hayward, Alfred Robert, Quiddleswell Mount | White-Smith, Sir Henry, C.B.E., Court lodge |
| COMMERCIAL | Lely, Hugh V., Hooe lodge | Wilson, Mrs., The Grove |
| Marked thus # farm 150 acres or over | Dodson, Saml., grocer, & Post Office | Pont, G.R. farmer, Sunnybank, Cooden 473 |
| Baker, Arth. Frank, F.R.H.S. landscape gardener, Poplar cott | #Gander Bros, farmers, School farm | Red Lion P. H. (Harry J. Barton) | Baker, Thos, market gardener, Savin cott | Gander, Leonard, farmer, Glebe cott | Sargent, Horace & Son, market gardeners |
| Carey, Wm., farmer, Olives farm T.N. Cooden 449 | Hart, Ronald C. W., farmer, Parsonnage farm, T.N. Cooden 353 | Sargent, Arth. H., market gardener, Victoria Villa, Ninfield 48 |
| Claxton, Cecil Hugo, farmer, Grove farm. Cooden 449 | Hayes, Frank, blacksmith & shopkpr | Sargent, Jas, farmer, Nut Browns | Clifton, Cecil, farmer, Dewlings farm | Hooe Village Hall | Sheather, Ernest farmer, Castlehurst farm |
| Clifton, Ernest, smallholder, Eaton's farm. | Hutchinson, Fredk, hairdrssr | Smith, Bernard, Rt., butcher T.N. Ninfield 60 |
| Clifton, Hy., smallholder, Fuchsia cot. | Inman, Jn, farmer, Longdown farm, T.N. Cooden 83 | Smyth, W.K.G., farmer, Sand Hall farm. Ninfield 110 |
| #Constant, Philip., farmer, Holmes farm, T.N.Cooden 72 | Lamb Inn (Danl. F.R.Carter), serwer;s bridge. Cooden 190 | Taylor, Horace, builder |
| Cornford, William, smallholder | Morris, Saml, farmer, Akehurst farm | Vitler, Alfd., farm foreman to Alfd.Stapley, esq. Halls Cross farm |
| Crouch, W. C. bldr, Cooden 144 | Pilbeam, Frank, motor engnr, Ninfield 59 | Ward, Alfd. Wm., boot & shoe repr. |
| Pocock, W.A., market gardener, Windy Bank |
