Cocking, West Sussex
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| Cocking shown within West Sussex | |
| Area | 10.16 km2 (3.92 sq mi) |
| Population | 420. 2011 Census |
| • Density | 45/km2 (120/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU878176 |
| • London | 47 miles (76 km) NE |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | MIDHURST |
| Postcode district | GU29 0 |
| Dialling code | 01730 |
| Police | Sussex |
| Fire | West Sussex |
| Ambulance | South East Coast |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
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| Website | http://www.cocking.org/ |
Cocking is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. The village is about three miles (5 km) south of Midhurst on the main A286 road to Chichester.
In the 2001 census there were 190 households with a total population of 459 of whom 223 were economically active.
The 11th centuryAnglican parish church had no known dedication until 2007 when it was dedicated to St. Catherine of Siena.
In the centre of the village, on the corner of Mill Lane stands the old school, which is now a private residence. This was built in 1870 to the designs of architects Richard Carpenter and William Slater. The school has Gothic-style windows and door arches, is faced in flint with a red tiled roof and decorative barge-boards to the gables. The former schoolmaster's house has a distinctive chimney-stack with four outlets.
To the south of the village are the remains of Cocking Lime Works, abandoned in 1999, and the associated chalk pit, while to the north are a few traces of the Chorley Iron Foundry, which cast the waterwheels now at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum and at the Coultershaw Beam Pump.
There still remain in the village some houses of 17th century origin. In 1931 the population of the village was 431.
There was a Richard Cobden pub in Cocking which closed and became a private residence in the 20th century. Cobden lived in nearby Heyshott.
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