Hooe is a parish 6 miles. South-west of Battle, on the river Ashburn, in Ninfield Hundred, rape of Hastings, and Union of Hailsham. The living is a vicarage in the archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester; rated at £7 2s 6d,; gross income £182; tithes commuted in 1839; aggregate amount £220 7s 4d. impropriated, and 314 16s 4d. vicarial. Patron Sir G. Webster. The church is an antique stone edifice, with a low and massive embattled tower, a nave and chancel, and a small chapel on the north side, used as a vestry. The manor of Hooe being given to the abbey of Bec in Normandy, by Henry, Earl of Ewe, between AD 1096 and 1139, here was (according to the general usage in such cases) shortly after erected an alien priory of Benedictine monks to that foreign house, though sometimes reckoned as parcel of its principal cell in England, Okeburn. It was given by King Henry the VI, with Preston , to Eton College, and by King Edward IV to Ashford College in Kent, A fair for pedlery is held here on May 1st. The parish comprises about 3,000 acres.
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GENTRY Dunn Rev, James Trace Routh Rev. John TRADERS Blackman Jn & Saml, frmrs, Grove frm |
Carey Peter, bricklayer Chrismas William, farmer Cuthbert Jsph, Red Lion, & blacksmith Goldsmith Edwin, farmer King George, grocer & draper |
Lemon Joshua. Farmer Lemon Levi, farmer & brickmaker Relfe Thomas, land surveyor Rich William, farmer |
POST OFFICE Joseph Cuthbert, receiver. Letters arrive from Battle at 9 a.m.; dispatched at past 5 p.m.
Page 0773 – Clerk to the Commissioners of sewers for Hooe & Willington Levels, & Actuary to the Hastings Savings Bank, Henry Bishop, 4, High Street
Page 0968 – Post Office – Bricklayers – Carey P., Hooe, Battle
Page 1020 – Post Office – Farmers – Chrismas W., Hooe, Battle
Page 1035 – Trades Directory – Farmers – Lemmon J., Hooe, Battle
Page 1035 – Trades Directory – Farmers – Lemmon L., Hooe, Battle
Page 1071 – Trades Directory – Grocers & Tradealers – King G., Hooe, Battle
Page 1129 – Trades Directory – Publicans – Red Lion (J. Cuthbert), Hooe, Battle
