Cocking

Other current and historical names

Cochinges

Built-Up Area: Cocking
Parish/Community: Cocking
District/Borough: Chichester
County: West Sussex
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°57'5"N 0°45'2"W
Eastings/Northings: 487862, 117640
OS Grid: SU878176
Mapcode Local: GBR DFG.91J
Mapcode Global: FRA 969L.KDR

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Cocking within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Cocking in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Cocking, par. and vil. with ry. sta., W. Sussex, 2½ miles S. of Midhurst, 2598 ac., pop. 574.

Cocking in the Domesday Book

A village in Easebourne hundred, in the county of Sussex.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Azur of Slindon
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Earl Roger of Shrewsbury
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Turold (subinfeudated); Robert son of Theobald (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 12 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £15 in 1066; £10 in 1070; £15 in 1086
- Households: 18 villagers; 8 smallholders; 6 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 ¹⁄₂ lord's ploughs; 9 men's ploughs (11 ¹⁄₂ plough lands)
- Churches: 1
- Mills: 5, value £1 17/4¾

British Place Names

Cocking, West Sussex

Cocking is a village in West Sussex

Cocking in historic gazetteers

Cocking in the Domesday Book