Hoo Peninsula

Hoo Peninsula
Hoo Peninsula is located in Kent
Hoo Peninsula
Hoo Peninsula
Location within Kent
Population31,050 [1]
OS grid referenceTQ7675
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townROCHESTER
Postcode districtME3
Dialling code01634
PoliceKent
FireKent
AmbulanceSouth East Coast
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Kent
51°27′N 0°33′E / 51.45°N 0.55°E / 51.45; 0.55
Hoo Peninsula

The Hoo Peninsula is a peninsula in Kent, England. It separates the estuaries of the Thames and Medway.

The peninsula has a line of chalk, clay and sand hills,[2] surrounded by a big area of marshland.

Hoo is a Saxon word believed to mean 'spur of land'.[3] Hoo features in the Domesday Book.[4] The peninsula is home to protected wildlife sites. It also has industrial facilities and energy industries.

The mud around the Hoo Peninsula and the neighbouring Isle of Sheppey is mud from the end-Palaeocene and Eocene with plenty of bird remains.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ ONS "www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/populationandhouseholdestimatesfortheunitedkingdom/2011-03-21".
  2. ↑ Warren, Colin; Thomas, Iain (2006). "Geotechnical aspects of the Strood and Higham railway tunnel relining and refurbishment" (PDF). geolsoc.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Historic England - The Hoo Peninsula Landscape".
  4. ↑ The place names of Kent, Judith Glover, 1976, Batsford. ISBN 0-905270-61-4
  5. ↑ Clouter, Fred 2009: Sheppey Fossils – Birds. Retrieved 2009-AUG-05. [1]
  6. ↑ Mayr, Gerald 2008. A skull of the giant bony-toothed bird Dasornis (Aves: Pelagornithidae) from the Lower Eocene of the Isle of Sheppey. Palaeontology 51(5): 1107–1116. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00798.x (HTML abstract)
  7. ↑ Mayr, Gerald 2009: Paleogene fossil birds. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg & New York. ISBN 3-540-89627-9