Heworth, Hooch or Hooth Fishery

Hooch or Hooth in 1128, Hoch in 1195. 'hoh' is old English for a spur of land. This might be the same fishery as Ledynehughe of 1539, which lay near to Catdenburne. The name may be interpreted as 'Leodwine's hoh'. 'dyne' is old English for declivity. Belonged to the monks. 'Spur of the land with or at the steep slope'. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.