HOCKLEY, a parish in the hundred of ROCHFORD, county of ESSEX, 2 miles (N. E. by N.) from Rayleigh, containing 784 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in. the archdeaconry of Essex, and diocese of London, rated in the king's books at £16. 3. 9., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is of Norman architecture, with a massive octagonal tower surmounted by a shingled spire; it is supposed to have been erected by Canute and Turldl, in commemoration of their victory over Edmund Ironside. The Crouch river is navigable along the northern boundary of the parish. There is a very large barrow in the neighbourhood.