Throcking

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
Holy Trinity Church
Throcking Location within Hertfordshire
Civil parish	Cottered
District	East Hertfordshire
Shire county	Hertfordshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
List of places UK England Hertfordshire 51.953°N 0.056°W / 51.953; -0.056

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