Those areas are now low-lying land, one being the Hooe Levels, across which flows the stream known as Waller's Haven.

There was a high demand in France for English wool and the local Romney sheep produced fine wool and high-quality meat which was traded or smuggled via small boats off Normans Bay for brandy, wines, tobacco and other luxury goods.

[3] The church, dedicated to St Oswald, is part of a combined ecclesiastical parish with that at Ninfield.

The site is of biological interest consisting of low-lying grazing meadows, hosting a wide variety of wetland flora and fauna.

The hardy and docile all-red\ginger Sussex cattle which arrived in Viking days are very well suited to the Hooe Levels where they were once used as oxen to transport goods locally; they thrive on the mineral rich marshland where they are grass-finished to produce some of the best beef in the world[5] In the 2022 census, Hooe recorded 183 households.