History of Bocking

Bocking, Bradford Street 1902
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.

White's Directory of Essex 1848

A description of Bocking and a list of its inhabitants appears in the entry for Braintree.

More local history sources

Books featuring Bocking from Abebooks. Just click the logo. The search terms are already formatted for Bocking.

Search for Bocking census returns at ancestry.co.uk.

1841 England Census | 1851 England Census | 1861 England Census
1871 England Census | 1881 England Census | 1891 England Census
1901 England Census

Bradford Street, Bocking
Reproduced courtesy of Footsteps.
Quality reproductions of old photographs.

The Essex Record Office: an excellent starting point for research. The ERO has an online catalogue by the name of SEAX and a database of Parish Records held in the ERO. Access to both via their home page.

Brief archeological history of Bocking on the Essex County Council's Unlocking Essex.

Web site on the history of Bocking and Braintree.

Web site on the history of Bocking Windmill.

Web site on the history of St Mary's Church, Bocking.

1881 Ordnance Survey Map from the British History Online web site (Essex: 025, Ordnance Survey 1:10,560: Epoch 1.0).

Ordnance Survey - type the place name in the gazetteer search box to view detailed map of Bocking.

Images of England web site which has a photographic record of England's listed buildings - from the grandest house to the humblest cottage. Enter the town or village in the search box. Photographs are accompanied by a detailed architectural description of the property.