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Hoo St Werburgh is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula to bear the name ''Hoo''. It constitutes a civil parish in the unitary authority of Medway in South East England. It was, until 1998, part of Kent and is still ceremonially associated via the Lieutenancies Act. It had a population of 7,356 at the 2001 census, increasing to 8,945 at the 2011 Census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Civil Parish population 2011 )〕 == History == St. Werburgh was the daughter of King Wulfhere of Mercia, and niece of King Æthelred, his brother and successor. She was born between 640 and 650. The first church of Hoo St Werburgh may have been built in the reign of the 8th century King Æthelbald of Mercia, though presumably a monastery existed nearby at an earlier time.〔(Anglo-Saxon Charter S 233 Archive Peterborough ). British Academy ASChart project. Retrieved on May 11, 2008.〕 This, together with land at Hoo All Hallows, is likely to have been placed under the rule of the leading Mercian monastery of Medeshamstede, now known as Peterborough.〔Brooks, N. P., ''The Early History of the Church of Canterbury'', Leicester University Press, 1984, 193-7, 205.〕 A significant, and possibly unique, feature of this ancient parish church are the two Royal hatchments of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. Recently these have been restored and can be viewed in the church. The Reverend Ferdinando Booth of the same family as Archbishop Lawrence Booth was Vicar here from 1675-1680. The parish records of 1851 gave the population as 1,065. Thomas Aveling, of Aveling and Porter, the first British manufacturer of steamrollers, is buried in the graveyard. A workhouse was in use here until the 1930s, and the secondary school bears the name "The Hundred of Hoo Academy". ''Broad Street'' appeared as ''Brodestrete'' in 1478.〔''The Place Names Of Kent'', Judith Glover, 1976, Batsford ISBN 0-905270-61-4. "Broad Street".〕 ''Jacobs Lane'' is named after the family of Stephen Jacobe of Hoo (1480). The music and pop culture author Dave Thompson lived at Hoo St Werburgh as a child. Hometown of singer Declan Galbraith, born on 19 of December 1991 to Alec and Siobhan Galbraith. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hoo St Werburgh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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