Cocking, West Sussex - Gravelroots Cocking Village Guide, Cocking parish index, West Sussex England, UK - part of the Rother Valley Guide, England, UK

The Rother Valley
West Sussex, England
Cocking
Index

Cochinges - Cluniac
The Cocking Village Guide
WEST SUSSEX
A virtual guide for visitor and residents.

Cocking is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex.
The village, about 3 miles south of Midhurst on the main A286 road to Chichester, sits just below the South Downs and is ideally situated for walkers. It contains a stores & post office, pub, tea rooms, garage & church.

quick links:-
photos of Cocking - - Parish church, St. Catherine of Siena
Aerial view of Cocking - - Map of Cocking & Heyshott

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NEWSFLASH

COCKING INDEX

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 1931 was 437
Population 2001 was 459
re:2001 census - 190 households

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

INDEX A - Z
Aerial photos of Cocking
Andrews, John Albert
Bluebell Inn
Business directories
Bus Timetables
Cocking Chalk Quarry
Cocking Photographs
Church Info
Church photo gallery
Earthquake 1833
Fire service
Headstones at Cocking
History Column Production
Lime Works & Chalk pits
Map of Cocking & Heyshott
Mobile police station
Old photos & postcards
Photographic Studios - 1847-1910
Photographs of Cocking
Police
Post Office & stores
Village Website
Vintage photos of Cocking
War Memorial
Watermill

1851 post office directory for Cocking

Archived articles
Fears for future as pub closes - Dec 2008
Car collides with buildings - Nov 2004
Car fire No.13 - Cocking - Jan/00

COCKING VILLAGE WEBSITE
News - events - council meetings etc.

Cocking Chalk Quarry

Vintage views of Cocking

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

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:-
www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/aspen/sussex/stones.html#sites18

Parish church
Hoyle Lane
Cocking
click for
Church Info
church photographs
Cocking headstones

April 2007
New Name for Parish Church

ENGLISH WOODLANDS
sawmillers & timber merchants
Cocking Sawmill, Cocking Hill
GU29 0HS – 01730816941

MILESTONE GARAGE
Chichester road
01730 813148
Sales & repairs - no fuel

Bluebell Inn
Chichester Road (Bell Lane)
Cocking, 01730 813449

website
opening times

B&B

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

NOTICEBOARD

- LOCAL LOGS -
phone Steve on 07903 665023

- WANTED -
Midhurst Postcard of around 1970

Cocking has mobile speed cameras
slow down when passing through.

OPEN MIC NIGHT
Every Tuesday night

The ROYAL OAK

West Lavington
Midhurst from 7.30pm
Music til 11pm
Bar til midnight
with Mike Fry

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Duncton
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Fernhurst
Graffham
Harting
Heyshott
Iping
Lickfold
Linch
Lodsworth
Midhurst
Northchapel
Nyewood
Petworth
Selham
South Ambersham
Stedham
Tillington
Trotton
Upperton

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