Hoo Peninsula
| Hoo Peninsula | |
|---|---|
  Hoo Peninsula | |
| Location within Kent | |
| Population | 31,050 [1] |
| OS grid reference | TQ7675 |
| Unitary authority | |
| 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 | |
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[change | change source]
- ↑ ONS "www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/populationandhouseholdestimatesfortheunitedkingdom/2011-03-21".
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Historic England - The Hoo Peninsula Landscape".
- ↑ The place names of Kent, Judith Glover, 1976, Batsford. ISBN 0-905270-61-4
- ↑ Clouter, Fred 2009: Sheppey Fossils – Birds. Retrieved 2009-AUG-05. [1]
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Mayr, Gerald 2009: Paleogene fossil birds. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg & New York. ISBN 3-540-89627-9