[Luton Hoo, in Bedfordshire, was the manor of the family of Hoo,
or De Hoo, who are said by Sir Henry Chauncy to have been settled
there before the Norman Conquest. Hasted, in his Kent, says, "Hoo
comes from the Saxon _hou_, a hill." Ihre derives the word from
_hoeg_, high. Spelman, vo. _Hoga_, observes that _ho_, _how_,
signifies mons, collis. Jamieson says "_How_ is certainly no other
than Isl. _haug_, Suio-Gothic _hoeg_, the name given to sepulchral
mounds." See also Lemon's _English Etymology_, s. v. _Hough_,
_how_.]
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