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HOO, a district and a hundred in Kent. The district occupies the peninsula between the Thames and the Medway; and contains the parishes of Hoo-ST. Werburgh, Stoke, Isle of Grain, Allhallows, Hoo-St. Mary, High Halstow, and Cooling. Acres, 33, 281. Poor rates in 1863, £1, 964. Pop. in 1851, 2, 845; in 1861, 2, 861. Houses, 544. Marriages in 1862, 16; births, 134, -of which 6 were illegitimate; deaths, 78, -of which 26 were at ages under 5 years, and 1 at an age above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 128; births, 1, 091; deaths, 710. The places of worship, in 1851, were 7 of the Church of England, with 1, 266 sittings; 1 of Baptists, with 120 s.; 1 of Wesleyans, with 100 s.; 2 of Bible Christians, with 165 s.; and 1 undefined, with 120 s. The schools were 2 public day schools, with 130 scholars; 8 private day schools, with 139 s.; and 10 Sunday schools, with 402 s. The workhouse is in Hoo-ST. Werburgh; and, at the Census of 1861, had 55 inmates.-The hundred is in the lathe of Aylesford; and is nearly identical with the district, but smaller. Pop. in 1851, 2, 457. Houses, 449.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a district and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Hoo CP/AP Hoo RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place: | Hoo |
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