Hoo

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Hoo is used in placenames in the east of England to indicate coastal peninsulas and promontories. It appears in:

• Fort Hoo, a fort on an island in the River Medway, Kent
• Hoo St Werburgh and Cliffe-at-Hoo on the Hoo peninsula in Kent
• Hoo, Suffolk
• Hundred of Hoo School, a secondary school in Rochester, Kent
• Hundred of Hoo Railway, a railway line on the Hoo peninsula in Kent
• Luton Hoo, a country house in Bedfordshire, England
• St Mary Hoo, a village and civil parish in Kent, England
• Hoo Peninsula, north Kent, England
• Sutton Hoo, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Suffolk
• Wan-Hoo, a lunar crater on the Moon's far side

Hoo is also used as a surname:

• Kho Ping Hoo (1926-1994), an Indonesian author of Chinese descent
• Sim Wong Hoo, CEO and Chairman of Creative Technology
• Baron Thomas Hoo (ca 1396-1455), member of the ancient "Hoo" or "de Hoo" family of England.

[edit] See also

• Boo Hoo, an album by the Dark Cabaret/Darkwave artist Voltaire
• Hoo-Bangin' Records, an independent record label founded by rapper Mack 10
• International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, and organization for people in the forests products industry
• Wah-hoo-wah, an Indian yell
• Woo Hoo, a joyful expression; also a song written by George Donald McGraw
• Yahoo (disambiguation)
• Yoo-hoo, an American chocolate-flavored beverage
• Yoo-Hoo (disambiguation)