Hooe, Sussex

Description
Hooe, a village and a parish in Sussex. The village is 4 1/2 miles WNW of Bexhill station on the L.B. & S.C.R., and 5 from Pevensey, and has a fair on 1 May, and a post office under Battle; money order office, Boreham Street; telegraph office, Catsfield. Acreage, 2473; population, 480. The manor belonged to Henry, Earl of Eu, was given by him about the beginning of the 12th century to the Abbey of Bee in Normandy, and became the site of a Benedictine priory, a cell to that abbey. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Chichester; gross value, £250. The church is ancient; comprises nave, chancel, and N chapel or vestry, with a low massive embattled tower. It is mentioned in Domes-day Book. Hooe, an ecclesiastical parish in Devonshire, taken out of Plymstock in 1866; it consists of the villages of Hooe and Tnmchapel, and the hamlets of Borisand and Batten, and is 4 1/2 miles SE of Plymouth. Staddon, Borisand, and Stam-ford Forts are in the parish. Post town, Plymouth. Population, 1364. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Exeter; value, £320 with residence.