Throcking
Throcking is a village in the civil parish of Cottered, in the East Hertfordshire district of Hertfordshire, England. It is approximately 1.5 miles west-northwest of Buntingford and 7 miles east-northeast of Stevenage.
Throcking was recorded in the Domesday Book as Trochinge.
Throcking was historically a parish. The civil parish was abolished in 1955 and its area absorbed into the parish of Cottered. At the 1951 census, Throcking had a population of 139.
Notable residents
- Thomas Soame, English politician
- Sir Leonard Hyde, High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1606
- Amy Robsart, first wife of Sir Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
- Leonard Arthur Hawes, British army officer responsible for B.E.F transport to France