Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Hoo. You may be able to find further references to Hoo in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Hoo	hundred	Bartholomew
Hoo	village	Bartholomew
HOO, or HOO-ST. WERBURGH	a village and a parish	Imperial
Hoo. St Werburgh	parish	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Hoo.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Chattenden	hamlet	Bartholomew
Hoo, Allhallows	parish	Bartholomew
Hoo, St Mary	parish	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Hoo within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Camden	Kent	3

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Medway	0	3
Grange	0	2
Upnor	0	1
Stoke	0	5
New Brompton	0	1
Gillingham	2	3
High Halstow	0	2
Brompton	0	2
Cooling	2	3
St Mary Hoo	0	2
Frindsbury	0	2
Upchurch	0	2
Luton	0	2
Strood	0	2
Shamwell	0	2
Rainham	0	2
Allhallows	0	3
Cliffe	1	2
Chatham	24	4
Rochester	56	5