Walking over the Pegsdon Hills and Knocking Hoe yesterday there was a fine selection of wildflowers wherever the grass was long. Correspondingly pollinators were plentiful. The Hoo Bit nature reserve was especially flowery. 

 The English landscape has quite a few hoos, for example Sutton Hoo and the Hoo Peninsula. The word seems to derive from the Anglo Saxon hoh meaning a hill shaped like a heel spur. I can only think that Hoo Bit is so named because it is a bit of a hoo! 

 Hoe is thought to be an alternative derivation and of course Knocking Hoe is not far away.