COCKING, a parish in the hundred of EASEBOURNE, rape of CHICHESTER, county of SUSSEX, 2 miles (S.) from Midhurst, containing 340 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, rated in the king's books at £13. 6. 8., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Chichester. The church is in the early style of English architecture, with some later additions. In 1730, Stephen Challen bequeathed certain messuages in trust, for the education of twenty children of this parish and the parish of Oving; but the rental is now only £4 a year, a moiety of which is paid to a schoolmistress for teaching four children of this parish to read.