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Cocking is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England.
The village is about 3 miles south of Midhurst on the main A286 road to Chichester.

COCKING
West Sussex - United Kingdom
Post code GU29 - phone code 01730
Lat-Long:
50.95 (50°57') | -.75 (0°45')

Population 1831 was 453
Population 1841 was 464
Population 2001 was 459
re:2001 census - 190 households

Cocking Parish Council
Mrs G Miles
Clerk of Cocking Parish Council
41 The Croft, Cocking, Midhurst GU29 0HQ
H: 01730 815137 - W: 01243 777202
Email: postmaster@cocking-wsx-pc.gov.uk
click here for complete list of area parish clerks

INDEX
Aerial photos of Cocking
Andrews, John Albert
Bluebell Inn
Bus Timetables
Cocking Chalk Quarry
Church Info
Church photo gallery
Earthquake 1833
Fire service
Lime Works & Chalk pits
Map of Cocking & Heyshott
Mobile police station
Old photos & postcards
Photographic Studios 1847-1910
Police
Post Office & stores
Vintage photos of Cocking
War Memorial
Watermill


--------------------- Parish church
Hoyle Lane
Cocking
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Church Info
photo gallery
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B&B

Moonlight Cottage Tea Rooms
Chichester Road, Cocking, 01730 813336
website
[Car collides with buildings - Nov 2004]

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Bluebell Inn

Chichester Road (Bell Lane)
Cocking, 01730 813449


Cocking post office & stores

Cocking watermill - click for info
Cocking Watermill
Cocking = { Cochinges - Cluniac }
[Cochinge] Cocca's {Old English} + -ingas = tribe or people

Cocking Roll of honour
The Memorial Cross is on a little green in the lane below the churchyard on which 15 men are listed by Surnames and Christian Names....... click here

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Cast Iron Grave marker
Cocking graveyard
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Cast Iron Grave marker
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photo: - Chris Partridge 2006

Church photo gallery
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Production of Cocking History Column
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1851 post office directory for Cocking
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The Smugglers Table
In Charlton Forest, which stands on the northern edge of the South Downs near the village of Cocking in West Sussex, there used to stand a group of stones called "The Smugglers Table". This feature has now disappeared and replaced with a fir tree, but a local man said that the table was used by the smugglers to hide their casks of spirits (Beckett 1943 p.62). The description of these stones as a table and the ability to hide goods inside it suggest that this may have been a dolmen like tomb.
source:-
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/aspen/sussex/stones.html#sites18


April 2007
New Name for Parish Church

 
Milestone Garage - 01730 813148
Sales & repairs - no fuel
 
ENGLISH WOODLANDS
sawmillers & timber merchants
Cocking Sawmill, Cocking Hill
GU29 0HS – 01730816941
 
 
Archived
Car fire No.13 - Cocking - Jan/00
Car collides with buildings - Nov 2004
 
cocking chalk pit
Cocking Chalk Quarry
 
 

Cocking Hill, June 1920. From very faded worn postcard. [boot sale purchase]
click for more Vintage photos of Cocking & The Rother Valley
 

Led by
James Kenny, Archaeology Officer
Chichester District Council
TUESDAY 13 MAY
Start at 4pm from the Moonlight Tearooms
 
An informative walking tour of the village,
identifying natural and built heritage features
 
 

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