COCKING INDEX
 
West Sussex - United Kingdom
Post code GU29 - phone code 01730
Lat-Long:
50.95 [50º57'] | -.75 [0º45']
 
Population 1831 was 453
Population 1841 was 464
Population 1861 census 430
Population 1931 was 437
Population 2001 was 459
re- 2001 census - 190 households
 
Cocking Parish Council
Clerk of Cocking Parish Council
clerk contact details
click for complete list of area parish clerks
 
INDEX A - Z
Aerial photos of Cocking
Andrews, John Albert
Ann Heuffe
Bluebell Inn
Bus Timetables
Cocking Chalk Quarry
Cocking Photographs
Church Info
Church photo gallery
Earthquake 1833
Fire service
Headstones at Cocking
Lime Works & Chalk pits
Map of Cocking & Heyshott
Old photos & postcards
Photographic Studios - 1847-1910
Photographs of Cocking
Police
Post Office & stores
Railways
Station Cocking
Thomas Tipper
Village Hall
Village Website
Vintage photos of Cocking
War Memorial
Watermill
 
1851 post office directory for Cocking

Miscellaneous articles: -

Thomas Tipper 1731	Jul.2017
Overhead cables removed	Feb.2014
Hall celebrates first birthday	Sep 2011
Ann Heuffe dies in America	Oct 2010
Fears for future as pub closes	Dec 2008
Car collides with buildings	Nov 2004
Car fire No.13	Jan 2000
Helicopter Crash	Nov.1998

BURGLARS IN COCKING STEAL VALUABLE URNS October 2012

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 - aspen/sussex/stones

Flight Magazine, 2 March 1956
A new hill site near Cocking, on the South Downs, was used for the first time by members of the Lasham Gliding Centre on Sunday, February 19th, when a Tiger Moth tug and five sailplanes were flown there by a party under C.F.I. Derek Piggott. The site, which has been loaned by Lord Cowdray, consists of a field large enough for aero-towing and situated at the top of the hill.
source

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

April 2007
New Name for Parish Church

Moonlight Cottage Tea Rooms