Throcking
Village in Hertfordshire, England
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Throcking is a village in the civil parish of Cottered, in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is approximately 1.5 miles west-northwest of Buntingford and 7 miles east-northeast of Stevenage.
| Throcking | |
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Holy Trinity Church | |
  Throcking Location within Hertfordshire | |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Throcking was recorded in the Domesday Book as Trochinge.[1]
Throcking was historically a parish. The civil parish was abolished in 1955 and its area absorbed into the parish of Cottered.[2] At the 1951 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Throcking had a population of 139.[3]
Notable residents
- Thomas Soame (1584-1671), English politician
- Sir Leonard Hyde, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1606
- Amy Robsart (1532-1560), first wife of Sir Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588)
- Leonard Arthur Hawes (1892-1986), British army officer responsible for B.E.F transport to France
