Place:Throcking, Hertfordshire, England

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names

source: Family History Library Catalog

Throcking is a village in eastern Hertfordshire. It was an ancient parishes of Hertfordshire, but in 1955 the civil parish was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Cottered.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Throcking from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"THROCKING, a parish in Royston [registration] district, Herts; 1½ mile WNW of Buntingford [railway] station. Post town: Buntingford. Acres: 903. Real property: £2,336. Population: 97. Houses: 18. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value: £252. Patron: the Rev. W. Adams. The church is good."

Research Tips

• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
• GENUKI on Hertfordshire (individual parishes covered separately)
• Hertfordshire Family History Society
• Edwinstree Hundred is not covered in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire as provided by British History Online.
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time