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Throcking
Hertfordshire
Holy Trinity, Throcking 3.jpg
Holy Trinity Church
Location
Location: 51°57’11"N, 0°3’22"W
Data
Post town: Buntingford
Postcode: SG9
Local Government
Council: East Hertfordshire

Throcking is a village and ancient parish in the Edwintree Hundred of Hertfordshire. It is approximately a mile and a half west-north-west of Buntingford and seven miles east-north-east of Stevenage. In 1951 the civil parish had a population of 139.[1] On the 1 April 1955 the civil parish was merged into Cottered.[2] Throcking was recorded in the Domesday Book as Trochinge.[3]

Notable residents

  • Thomas Soame (1584-1671), 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

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