The River Hooke is a small river in the county of Dorset in southern England. It runs from its source at Toller Whelme through the villages and hamlets of Hooke, Kingcombe, Toller Porcorum and Toller Fratrum to join the River Frome at Maiden Newton, a course of some 6 miles. The river was formerly called the River Toller, whence the name of the three Toller villages, as well as of the hundred of Tollerford. At some point, however, this former name was replaced in use by reference to a particular feature in the river's course: "Hooke" is a derivation of hoc, Old English for "sharp bend in a stream".[1] It is possible that this description gave the village of Hooke its name, which then transferred to the river by back-formation.
Although the River Hooke is flanked on both sides by chalk slopes of the Dorset Downs, in its course it has cut down to greensand. According to the Dorset-born author and broadcaster Ralph Wightman, this has resulted in "many springy and boggy patches which are not typical of chalk valleys."[2] Writing in 1965, Wightman commented that at Hooke village itself "the largest spring I have ever seen used to gush out of the steep hillside, and was immediately used for watercress."[3]
There is a river level monitoring stations on the River Frome at Hooke.[4]
^Gant, R., Dorset Villages, Hale, 1980, p134
^Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p93
^Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p94
^"River Hooke level at Hooke - GOV.UK". check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
The RiverHooke is a small river in the county of Dorset in southern England. It runs from its source at Toller Whelme through the villages and hamlets...
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The main tributaries of the Frome are the RiverHooke and River Cerne. The River Piddle (alternative name: River Trent) follows a similar and almost parallel...
from the River Toller (the former name of the present RiverHooke), at the source of which it stands: the second element Whelme means river source or...
widening the river was rejected. Rather, the Fleet was converted into the New Canal, completed in 1680 under the supervision of Robert Hooke. Newcastle...
King Charles II of England), Hooke helped fund a bridge in Bristol over the River Frome named "Traitors Bridge". In 1722 Hooke co-founded Stokes' Croft Endowed...
was used to form The Hooke Library, a (separate) science lending library for undergraduates, which was named after Robert Hooke, a scientist who worked...
available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Hooke, Roger LeB. (2000). "On the history of humans as geomorphic agents". Geology...
performance of the latest spring-balance watch, presented to him by Robert Hooke.) In 1662, Charles was pleased to grant a royal charter to a group of scientists...
468. Hooke 1999, p. 328. Phillips 2008, p. 135. Hooke 1999, p. 329. Hershler, Madsen & Currey 2002, p. 111. Brown & Rosen 1995, p. 294. Hooke 1998, p...
science and mathematics include Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Robert Hooke, Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Edward Jenner, Francis Crick, Joseph Lister...
encouraged by Charles. Apart from Wren and Evelyn, it is known that Robert Hooke, Valentine Knight, and Richard Newcourt proposed rebuilding plans. All were...
chases, or developing a relationship with women. Philosopher Alexander Hooke argued that Andy and Red's true freedom is their friendship, being able...
creation method was first devised by Robert Hooke rather than Leeuwenhoek, which is ironic given Hooke's subsequent surprise at Leeuwenhoek's findings...
in Islamic Studies at the University of Glasgow 18 February 2016 Robert Hooke David Wootton, Anniversary Professor of History at the University of York...
On July 8, 1680, Robert Hooke was able to see the nodal patterns associated with the modes of vibration of glass plates. Hooke ran a bow along the edge...
thegn of the Hwicce, has been described by some historians as a king. Della Hooke, The Kingdom of the Hwicce (1985), pp.12-13 Stephen Yeates, The Tribe of...
Philo Farnsworth Reginald Fessenden Elisha Gray Oliver Heaviside Robert Hooke Erna Schneider Hoover Harold Hopkins Gardiner Greene Hubbard Internet pioneers...
the Volga Germans, farmers from Germany who settled mostly in the Volga River Valley region. They indeed helped modernise the sector that totally dominated...
buildings. Rebuilding took over ten years and was supervised by polymath Robert Hooke. In 1710, Christopher Wren's masterpiece, St Paul's Cathedral, was completed...
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