Hooe is a parish, 6 miles south-west of Battle, 10 west from Hastings, and 11 east-north-east from Eastbourne,10 south-east from Hailsham, in the Eastern division of the county, Ninfield hundred, rape and county court district of Hastings, union of Hailsham, rural deanery of Hastings, archdeaconry of Lewes, and diocese of Chichester. The church, reputed to have been dedicated to St Oswald, is an ancient stone edifice, having a chancel, nave, small chapel on the north side, used as a vestry, and a low and massive embattled tower with 5 bells. The register dates from the year 1531.
The living is a vicarage, annual return 400, with residence, in the gift of Alfred Jones esq. and held by the Rev. Naasson Maning, B. A. of Trinity College, Dublin.
A fair for cattle and pedlery is held here on May 1st. 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. The Earl of Ashburnham, Thomas Brassey, esq., M. P., who is lord of the Manor, and the trustees of the late Sir James Duke, bart., are the largest landowners. The soil is loam; subsoil sand. The chief crops are wheat and hops. The area is 2, 448 acres; rateable value, 3,621l and the population in 1871 was 496.
Parish clerk, F. A. Taylor
POST OFFICE. Mrs Dodson, receiver. Letters arrive from Hawkhurst at 8.45 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Bexhill.
INSURANCE AGENT Liverpool & London & Globe, F. Dodson
Church of England School, Joseph Ridel, master
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Homewood Merser, Court lodge Maning Rev. Naasson, B. A. Vicarage COMMERCIAL Carden George, smith & coal merchant Christopher, William, Red Lion Cork W. W. bailiff to Mr. Homewood Cuthbert Joseph, farmer & overseer |
Dodson Jemima (Mrs.), grocer & linen draper Errey John, wheelwright Lemmon Levi, farmer, Broad street, Green farm Lemmon Levi, jun. farmer, Saddlers frm Pilbeam John, Lamb, Sewers bridge |
Pilbeam Robt., carpenter & wheelwright Playon John, farmer,& overseer, Grove frm Rich William, farmer & hop grower, Longdown farm Smith James, butcher Swanton Robt, farmer, Sandbanks farm Veness James, baker & grocer |
