Hoo Peninsula | |
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Location within Kent | |
Population | 31,050 [1] |
OS grid reference | TQ7675 |
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Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | ROCHESTER |
Postcode district | ME3 |
Dialling code | 01634 |
Police | Kent |
Fire | Kent |
Ambulance | South East Coast |
UK Parliament |
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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]