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Cocking Lime Works
50.9470° N, -0.7523° E
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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.
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Earliest documentary mention of lime workings
1715
Chalk pit shown on estate map
1768
Earthquake fatality in chalk pit
1833
Lease to Pepper and Sons
1906
Narrow-gauge tramway recorded
1914
Expansion under Robert Dunning
1924
Change of ownership of Midhurst works
1926
Ministry request and intermediate crushing
1938
Peak chalk processing
1955
Embanked roadway constructed
1962
End of brick lime production and new crusher
1985
Acquired by Dudman Group
1993
All work ceased; site abandoned
1999
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