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ID:SKE31593
Title:Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: St Mary Hoo Parish. Research Report 2014-52
Originator:historic england
Date:2014
Summary:The parish of St Mary Hoo lies on the north side of the Hoo peninsula, extending from the central ridge of the higher ground to a northern marshland fringe and foreshore on the River Thames. Bordered east and west by the parishes of Allhallows, and High Halstow, its chief developments are the village of St Mary Hoo, the hamlet of Fenn Street, and further ribbon development along the Ratcliff Highway, the principal routeway. Historically, its economy was largely agricultural, but like others on the peninsula, St Mary Hoo saw industrial and military development in the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly in the form of gravel extraction, explosives storage, war-time defensive structures and land fill waste disposal. St Mary's Hall was the home of the influential agriculturalist Henry Pye, the so-called 'King of the Hundreds' who progressed farming practices and played a decisive role in the creation of the 'Hundred of Hoo Railway Company'. Yet the parish was bypassed by the railway and by the upgrading of the peninsula's main road, the A228. As a result, St Mary Hoo retains a strongly agricultural character, and its landscape is one of fields, orchards and marshland pasture with dispersed residential clusters and isolated farmsteads.

Associated Monuments

TQ 87 NW 11084-6 The Street, St Mary Hoo Parish (Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 1069Airship shed, at Moat Farm, St Mary Hoo Parish (Listed Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 45Anti Tank obstacles, Hoppers Cottage, St. Mary Hoo (Monument) ()
TQ 87 NW 1128Barnstreet Farm or Barn Street Farm, St Mary Hoo (Farmstead) ()
TQ 87 NW 1052CHURCH OF ST MARY, St Mary Hoo (Listed Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 1124Coomb Farm or Coombe Farm, St Mary Hoo (Farmstead) ()
TQ 87 NW 1101Egypt Marsh Farm or Egypt Marshes Farm, St Mary Hoo Parish. (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 37Explosive stores, St. Mary's Marshes, St. Mary Hoo (Monument) ()
TQ 77 NE 1105Fenn Bell Inn or Fenn Bell Public House or Bell Inn, Fenn Street, St Mary Hoo Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1072FENN STREET FARM HOUSE, St Mary Hoo (Listed Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 1127Hoppers Farm, St Mary Hoo (Farmstead) ()
TQ 87 NW 1100Lowlands Farm or Lowland Farm, St Mary Hoo parish (Monument) ()
TQ 87 NW 1126Moat Farm or Crevice Farm or Spongs Farm, St Mary Hoo Parish. (Farmstead) ()
TQ 77 NE 1082NEWLAND'S FARM HOUSE or Newlands Farm, St Mary Hoo (Listed Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 1106Old gravel pit, near to Barn Street Farm, St Mary Hoo Parish (Monument) ()
TQ 87 NW 1105Rose Cottages, a row of five workers cottages, Ratcliffe Highway, St Mary Hoo Parish. (Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 1125Ross Farm or Ross's Farm, Farmstead in St Mary's Hoo (Farmstead) ()
TQ 87 NW 1107Sage Cottage and Church Cottage, St Mary Hoo Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1106Sea wall constructed after 1530 along the river Thames, St Mary Hoo (Monument) ()
TQ 87 NW 1129Shakespeare's Farm or Bell's Farm, St Mary Hoo Parish (Farmstead) ()
TQ 87 NW 1104Site of Coombe Houses, cottages near to Bell's Farm, St Mary's Hoo Parish (Monument) ()
TQ 87 NW 1102Site of village poorhouse (now the site of The Red House), St Mary Hoo parish (Monument) ()
TQ 87 NW 1048ST MARY'S HALL, St Mary Hoo (Listed Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 1103St Mary's Parochial School, St Mary Hoo Parish (Building) ()
TQ 77 NE 1121Swigshole Farm, St Mary Hoo (Farmstead) ()
TQ 87 NW 1054THE OLD RECTORY, St Mary Hoo Parish (Listed Building) ()
TQ 87 NW 1023World War II Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery, near Fenn Street, Stoke (Monument) ()