Hoe, Norfolk

Hoe is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hoe and Worthing, in the English county of Norfolk.
Hoe is located north of Dereham and north-west of Norwich.

History

Hoe's name is of Anglo-Saxon origin and derives from the Old English for hill-spur.
In the Domesday Book, Hoe is listed as a settlement of 20 households in the hundred of Laundich. In 1086, the village was part of the East Anglian estates of St. Etheldreda's Abbey.
Hoe Hall was built on the site of a medieval moated site during the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. There was previously a walled garden which was replaced by a swimming pool in the 1970s.

Hoe's former parish church is dedicated to Saint Andrew and dates from the Thirteenth Century. St. Andrew's is located on the High Street and has been Grade II listed since 1960. The church holds regular Sunday service once a month.

Hoe is part of the electoral ward of Lincoln for local elections and is part of the district of Breckland.
The village's national constituency is Mid Norfolk which has been represented by the Conservative's George Freeman MP since 2010.

Hoe's war memorials are a set of brass plaques inside St. Andrew's Church which lists the following name for the First World War:

Rank	Name	Unit	Date of death	Burial/Commemoration
Lt.	George B. Bagnall	6th Bn., Rifle Brigade	23 Apr. 1917	Arras Memorial

The following names were added after the Second World War: