Cockington Village and Craft Centre near Torquay,
Beautiful Devon village with thatched cottages and craft centre demonstrating glass b lowing, blacksmithing, art and various craft pat was mainly established as a farming and fishing village and was owned by the Cockington family from 1048 to is a cricket pavilion on a site which was once a medieval deer park ,the original pavilion burnt down in 1947, also on site is the Drum Inn the local pub/restaurant designed by Edwin Lutyens and was opened in 1936 to replace the old ale were also seven terraced Almshouses built during the reign of King James I by the Cary family to house the poor and and those who could not work within the Court also within the village is now a Arts and Craft Workshop Centre
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Location: Cocking Village Torquay Devon
Photo credit: © Mike Twigg,fotocapricorn / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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