Hoo St. Werburgh
Hoo St Werburgh is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent in England that goes by the name of Hoo. Hoo St Werburgh also forms a community in the Borough of Medway with 7356 inhabitants (status: 2001 census). The place is located in the south east of England about 60 km from London.
history
Hoo St Werburgh is named after the niece of King Æthelred of Mercia , whose birth dates from 640 to 650.
The first church built in Hoo dates back to 741. It was built by Æthelbald, a cousin of the patron saint of Chester , Werburgh . There was a women's convent nearby. One feature of the church is considered unique, namely the existence of two royal coats of arms, the coat of arms of James I and the coat of arms of Elizabeth I (1603), both of which have recently been restored and can be seen in the church. The records of the parish give a population of 1065 for 1851. Thomas Aveling , one of the founders of Aveling & Porter (the first British manufacturer of steam rollers), is buried in the church cemetery.
A poor house existed until the 1930s. The secondary school is called the Hundred of Hoo School . The name of Broad Street was mentioned as Brodestrete as early as 1478, which only indicates the existence of a wide street. The Jacobs Lane was named after the family of Stephen Jacobe of Hoo (1480).
Sons and daughters of the church
- Declan Galbraith (born December 19, 1991), British singer with Scottish and Irish ancestry
Individual evidence
- ^ Judith Glover: The Place Names of Kent . Batsford 1976, ISBN 0-905270-61-4
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 24 ″ N , 0 ° 33 ′ 30 ″ E