HOOKE, a chapelry in that part of the parish of SNAITH which is in the lower division of the wapentake of OSGOLDCROSS, West riding of the county of YORK, 2 miles (S.S.E.) from Howden, containing 363 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the Peculiar court of Snaith, endowed with £400 royal bounty, and in the patronage of - Starkie, Esq. The chapel is dedicated to St. John. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Twelve children are instructed for £6 a year, the bequest of Joshua Jefferson in 1721.