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unusual facts about Hoo Peninsula


Dickens Fellowship

In 2002 the Fellowship campaigned to save an area of Kent marshland on the Hoo Peninsula which provided the setting to the opening chapter of Dickens's novel Great Expectations where the young Pip first encountered the escaped convict Magwitch.


The Hundred of Hoo Academy

The Hundred of Hoo Academy (formerly The Hundred of Hoo School) is a secondary school with academy status located in the Hoo Peninsula, in the village of Hoo in Kent, England.

Wainscott, Kent

These two roads meet at the 'Four Elms Roundabout', where the A228 climbs 'Four Elms Hill' and onto the Hoo Peninsula, where the A228 becomes the Ratcliffe Highway, that then passes the Deangate Ridge Golf Club on the left and takes the second roundabout exit on the Main Road into Hoo itself.


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