Hooe is a parish 6 miles. southwest of Battle, 10 west of Hastings, and 11 east-north-east of Eastbourne, in Ninfield hundred, rape and county court district of Hastings, and union of Hailsham, East Sussex, in the deanery of Dallington, archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester. The living is a vicarage, annual return £235, the Rev. Naasson Maning, B. A. is the incumbent. The church, said to be dedicated to St Oswald, 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 cattle and pedlery is held here on May 1st. The parish comprises 2447 acres, and the population, in 1851, of 574 inhabitants. Here is a parochial school for boys and girls, supported by voluntary subscriptions
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Maning, Rev, Naasson, B. A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL Blackman, John & Samuel, landowners and farmers, Grove farm. Carey, Peter, brick layer & parish clerk Chapman, Charlotte, mistress of Parochial school Chrismas, William, farmer |
Cuthbert, Joseph, “Red Lion”, and blacksmith Dale, Edward, Wheelwright Goldsmith, Edwin. Farmer King, George, grocer and draper Lemmon, Joshua, farmer Lemmon, Levi, farmer and brickmaker Pettett, Wm. & Jas., farmers, Court Lodge |
Morris, Thomas, boot & shoemaker & shopkeeper Pilbeam, Robert & Sons, carpenters and wheelwright's Pilbeam, John, Lamb, Sewers Bridge Relfe, Thomas, land surveyor and collector of assessed taxes Rich, William, farmer |
Post Office - Joseph Cuthbert, receiver. Letters arrive from Battle at 8.30 a. m. & are dispatched at 5:30 p.m.. The nearest money order of this is at Bexhill.
Page 1679 – Bricklayers – Carey P. Hooe, Battle
Page 1680 – Brick & Tile Makers – Lemmon L. Hooe, Battle
Page 1684 – Carpenters – Pilbeam R & Sons, Hooe, Battle
Page 1693 – Farmers – Blackman J & S. Hooe, Battle
Page 1695 – Farmers – Chrismas W. Hooe, Battle
Page 1697 – Farmers – Goldsmith E. Hooe, Battle
Page 1699 – Farmers – Lemmon L, Hooe, Battle
Page 1701 – Farmers – Pettett W. & J. Hooe, Battle
Page 1702 – Farmers – Rich W. Hooe, Battle
Page 1713 – Land Surveyors – Relfe T. Hooe, Battle
Page 1731 – Publicans – Lamb J. PilBeam, Serersbridge, Hooe, Battle
Page 1732 – Publicans – Red Lion, J. Cuthbert, Hooe, Battle
Page 1738 – Shopkeepers – Morris T. Hooe, Battle
Page 1750 – Wheelwrights – Dale E. Hooe, Battle
