Hoath

In Kent and East Sussex the Old English term hǣð, which became heath in Modern English, was replaced by an unmutated form, hāð, which, over time, evolved into Hoath. The name thus means "heath".{{cite book|author=P. H. Reaney|date=1969|title=The Origin of English Place Names|publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul|page=45|isbn=0-7100-2010-4}}

Hoath was part of the estate granted by King Ecgberht of Kent in 669 for the foundation of the church at Reculver,{{sfn|Gough|2001|p=251}}{{sfn|Garmonsway|1972|pp=34–5}} and remained part of that estate when King Eadred granted it to Archbishop Oda of Canterbury in 949.{{sfn|Gough|1992|p=}}{{refn|"[A]s the name [Reculver] is used [in Domesday Book of 1086], it means something larger than the parish but much smaller than the thirteenth-century {{nowrap|manor ...}} It is fairly sure to have included {{nowrap|Hoath ..."}}{{sfn|Flight|2010|p=162}}|group=Fn}} A chantry either in or connected with Hoath is recorded in the 14th century, with John Gardener as the chaplain, successor to Henry atte Were.Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archive; [http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT6/R2/CP40no541a/bCP40no541adorses/IMG_0652.htm CP 40/541, year 1396] (first entry, with "Kant" in the margin); the dispute concerned whether a situation should be investigated in the secular or ecclesiastical Courts. On 9 December 1410 Archbishop Thomas Arundel dedicated a chapel to the Virgin Mary and consecrated a burial-ground at Hoath at the request of the inhabitants and his tenants there who, led by Sir Nicholas Haute, Peter Halle Esq. and Richard Hauk, then chaplain of the chantry, promised to observe his ordinances.The National Archives (UK) Discovery Catalogue, [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/959640f1-2673-46e6-b98c-b44a4fca2859 ref. CCA-DCc-ChAnt/R/21] (Canterbury Cathedral Archives).

The hamlet of Ford was the location of Ford Palace, a residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury from at least the 14th century to the 17th.{{sfn|Gough|2001|p=}} Robert Hunt, chaplain to the expedition that founded the first successful English colony in the New World, at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607, was born in Hoath in the late 1560s or early 1570s.{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/the-reverend-robert-hunt-the-first-chaplain-at-jamestown.htm|title=The Reverend Robert Hunt: The First Chaplain at Jamestown|work=nps.gov|access-date=28 July 2015}}{{sfn|Gough|1984|p=21}}

Within Hoath there is a small primary school, a camp site called Southview Camping, a public house named the Prince of Wales, and a village hall.

A late medieval church, Holy Cross, stands on Church Road, and was originally a chapel-of-ease for St Mary's Church, Reculver. The building was renovated by Joseph Clarke between 1866 and 1867, when a north aisle was added.{{cite web|url=https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/HOA.htm|title=Holy Cross Church, Hoath - Architectural & Historical Information|access-date=6 August 2015|archive-date=19 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819052607/http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/01/03/HOA.htm|url-status=dead}}

Hoath has a small general aviation airfield {{Airport codes||EGHB}} west of the village near Maypole.

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• [http://www.hoath.org Hoath Parish Council]

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