Hoo Peninsula

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

Hoo Peninsula
Hoo Peninsula
Location within Kent
Population	31,050 [1]
OS grid reference	TQ7675
Unitary authority	Medway
Ceremonial county	Kent
Region	South East
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	Rochester and Strood
List of places UK England Kent 51.45°N 0.55°E / 51.45; 0.55

Hoo Peninsula

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.
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