East of England
Essex
Braintree District

Bocking

Bocking is a suburban village on the northern side of , in , England. Bocking village was historically in two parts; the original settlement around the parish church became known as Bocking Churchstreet, while a separate linear settlement called Bocking grew up a little way to the south along Bradford Street and The Causeway, adjoining the northern edge of Braintree.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: suburb of Braintree and former civil parish in Essex, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Bocking, Essex”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Braintree Library and Warner Textile Archive.

Library
Photo: Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Museum
Photo: Oxyman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a UK-based collection of textiles, designs and paper records operated by Braintree District Museum Trust. It opened in 1993 and is the second-largest collection of publicly-owned textiles in the UK.

Railway station
Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the northern terminus of the Braintree Branch Line in the , serving the town of . It is 44 miles 78 chains down the line from via ; the preceding station on the route is to the south.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Braintree and Bocking Churchstreet.

Photo: Brenda Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town in , . For a town of its size it boasts very few amenities. However, a shopping village on the outskirts, 'Freeport', has roughly 80 shops.

Village
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bocking is a suburban village on the northern side of , in , England. Bocking village was historically in two parts; the original settlement around the parish church became known as , while a separate linear settlement called Bocking grew up a little way to the south along Bradford Street and The Causeway, adjoining the northern edge of Braintree.

Hamlet
is a village in the civil parish of and the Braintree district of , England. In 2018, it had an estimated population of 1,114. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Bocking.

Bocking

Latitude
51.88381° or 51° 53′ 2″ north
Longitude
0.54991° or 0° 32′ 60″ east
Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)
Open location code
9F32VGMX+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1756519147
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
13268815
Wiki­data ID
Q1947480
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Swedish—“Bocking” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Bocking”
  • French: “Bocking”
  • German: “Bocking”
  • Polish: “Bocking”
  • Swedish: “Bocking, England”
  • “Bocking”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Saint Peters, Bocking and Braintree Cricket Club.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bocking”. Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.