Haunted Cocking Lime Works, West Sussex. Proof of the paranormal, ghosts & hauntings. Full Episode

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Today the cocking lime works sits abandoned and is a popular haunt of urban explorers however, reports of ghost sightings suggest the old quarry may not be as empty as it first seems...

Cocking Lime Works and its associated chalk quarry are abandoned industrial sites in the South Downs of England. They are to the south of the village of Cocking, West Sussex, close to the South Downs Way. The works are on land owned by the Cowdray Estate and are not open to the public. Cocking was the source of lime used for the manufacture of Midhurst White bricks and for agricultural purposes.

The earliest known mention of lime workings in the parish of Cocking is in 1715, when Cowdray Estate documents refer to two isolated lime kilns being in use. A map of the Cowdray Estate from 1768 shows a chalk pit on Cocking Hill, while the tithe map of 1842 shows the chalk pit as being assigned to Rev. Thomas Valentine, the incumbent at Cocking Church. In 1830, the estate map showed further lime kilns at Wolverstone Farm, at the southern edge of the parish.
In September 1833, William Marshall was killed by an earthquake in a chalk pit at Cocking.

The 1861 Census includes the entry "James Bennett, a tramp, slept in lime kiln" under Cocking, although there is no indication of the precise location. The same census describes Henry Farley, of Wolverstone Farm as a "Limeburner and timber merchant". The 1874 Ordnance Survey 25" scale map shows three lime kilns in the parish: one was near the head of Sun Combe and has been lost in later quarry excavations, while the others were in the lower pit closer to the village, one on the site of the later kilns and the other a few yards higher, now covered by trees. These kilns were probably small wood-fired flare kilns producing grey hydraulic lime.

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