Hoo St Werburgh, commonly known as Hoo, is a large village and civil parish in the Medway district of Kent, England. It is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula to bear the name Hoo, a Saxon word believed to mean "spur of land" or to refer to the "distinct heel-shape of the ridge of hills" through the settlement. Hoo features in Domesday Book, and had a population of 7,356 at the 2001 census, rising to 8,945 at the 2011 census. The civil parish includes Chattenden to the west.
View of Hoo from the Saxon Shore Way
St Werburgh Church
St Werburgh Church entrance
Hoo Library
Medway is borough and unitary authority area in Kent, South East England. It had a population of 278,016 in 2019. The unitary authority was formed in 1998, when the boroughs of Rochester-upon-Medway and Gillingham were merged to form Medway Towns. The borough is governed by Medway Council, a unitary authority which is independent of Kent County Council, but remains part of the ceremonial county of Kent.
Image: Rochester Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary) (42417936634)
Image: Submarine Ocelot, Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent geograph.org.uk 2577101
Image: The covered slips at Chatham dockyard, seen from Lower Upnor geograph.org.uk 3079732
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