Hooe, Plymouth
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Hooe is a small suburb
of Plymstock
, part of the City of Plymouth
in the English
county of Devon
.
It has a pleasant site adjacent to the estuary of the River Plym
and has been built over the site of the once grand house and estate of Radford the family seat of the Harris family.
Hooe consists of two areas. Higher Hooe and Lower Hooe, lower Hooe including the oldest area near to Hooe lake and the old barn from the former Hooe Barton Farm, demolished in 1969. [1]
Areas around Hooe include Plymstock and Radford to the East and Turnchapel to the north west and Jenny Cliff to the west. Hooe currently has woodland and farmland to the south.
Hooe has one small garage (formally a Gulf Petrol station) A newspaper shop, A small spar style shop, An Indian take away, A Chinese Take away and a Post office.
There is also one School "Hooe Primary School" situated in lower Hooe and two pubs The Royal Oak[2] and The Victoria,[3] although there are three other pubs, The Boringdon Arms (the old quarry masters house)[4], The Clovelly Bay Inn [5](formally the New Inn) and the Hotel Mountbatten [6] close by in the areas of Turnchapel and Mountbatten.
There are five quarries situated around Hooe lake, now all disused and in disrepair. The largest "Hooe lake quarry" was used to store fuel by the MOD until the 1970s after its useful life as a lime stone quarry. [7]
Adjacent to the lake at the river end of the estuary is the remains of the old swing bridge used for trains to access Turnchapel from the Oreston side from 1897.[8] [9] It was closed near to the middle of the 20th century shortly after the Second World War. Since then it has remained in a state of disrepair, the bridge its self has now gone but the underlying structure still remains. [10]
At one end of the dam separating the freshwater Radford Lake from tidal Hooe Lake sits an early C19th folly known as Radford Castle.
Suburb
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of Plymstock
Plymstock
Plymstock is a civil parish and commuter suburb of Plymouth in the English county of Devon.The earliest surviving documentary reference to the place is as Plemestocha in the Domesday Book and its name is derived from Old English meaning either "outlying farm with a plum-tree" or, if it is short for...
, part of the City of Plymouth
Plymouth
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in the English
England
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county of Devon
Devon
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.
It has a pleasant site adjacent to the estuary of the River Plym
River Plym
The River Plym is a river in Devon, England. Its source is some 450m above sea level on Dartmoor, in an upland marshy area called Plym Head. From the upper reaches which contain antiquities and mining remains the river flows roughly southwest and enters the sea near to the city of Plymouth, where...
and has been built over the site of the once grand house and estate of Radford the family seat of the Harris family.
Hooe consists of two areas. Higher Hooe and Lower Hooe, lower Hooe including the oldest area near to Hooe lake and the old barn from the former Hooe Barton Farm, demolished in 1969. [1]
Areas around Hooe include Plymstock and Radford to the East and Turnchapel to the north west and Jenny Cliff to the west. Hooe currently has woodland and farmland to the south.
Hooe has one small garage (formally a Gulf Petrol station) A newspaper shop, A small spar style shop, An Indian take away, A Chinese Take away and a Post office.
There is also one School "Hooe Primary School" situated in lower Hooe and two pubs The Royal Oak[2] and The Victoria,[3] although there are three other pubs, The Boringdon Arms (the old quarry masters house)[4], The Clovelly Bay Inn [5](formally the New Inn) and the Hotel Mountbatten [6] close by in the areas of Turnchapel and Mountbatten.
There are five quarries situated around Hooe lake, now all disused and in disrepair. The largest "Hooe lake quarry" was used to store fuel by the MOD until the 1970s after its useful life as a lime stone quarry. [7]
Adjacent to the lake at the river end of the estuary is the remains of the old swing bridge used for trains to access Turnchapel from the Oreston side from 1897.[8] [9] It was closed near to the middle of the 20th century shortly after the Second World War. Since then it has remained in a state of disrepair, the bridge its self has now gone but the underlying structure still remains. [10]
At one end of the dam separating the freshwater Radford Lake from tidal Hooe Lake sits an early C19th folly known as Radford Castle.