 In his 1953 work "The Engineers of the English River Navigations 1620–1760" for the Newcomen Society journal, Sir Alec Skempton described Hore as "in the first rank among the navigation engineers".In the "Hutchinson Chronology of World History", Hore's work on the Kennet is described as "[setting] a new standard for inland waterways, and is an important forerunner of the canals of the Industrial Revolution".Despite praise for Hore's work on the waterways, William Fordyce Mavor recognised that even by the 1810s—when Rennie's canal was completed—Hore's name and association with the navigations had disappeared into "oblivion".