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Hucking is a small hamlet and civil parish in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It is located north-east of Maidstone and south-west of Sittingbourne. The parish is governed by a parish meeting. The settlement sits atop the North Downs in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) near the villages of Hollingbourne, Detling, Bicknor and Wormshill and between the main A249 and B2163 roads connecting the towns of Sittingbourne and Maidstone. The parish church is dedicated to St Margaret. ==History== Hucking was historically part of the Hundred of Eyhorne.〔Hasted.E (1798) (Parishes: Hucking ), ''The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5'' pp. 569-572, Canterbury. Retrieved 2015-09-27.〕 It has always been sparsely populated and isolated, with the parish forming part of the manor of Hollingbourne. The name may derive from Houkynnge, although in the middle ages it was also known as Rumpsted after the family which owned the land.〔 The church of St Margaret is early Norman in origin and dates to around 1100 AD.〔(Church of St Margaret, Hucking ), British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2015-09-27.〕 It has a small, square wooden belfry in place of a tower and retains some medieval stonework.〔 It was restored in around 1878 and many of its features date from the 19th century.〔(St Margaret Church, Hucking ), Kent Archaeology Society. Retrieved 2015-09-27.〕 The church was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1968.〔 Two carved headstones in the graveyard are also listed at the same grade.〔(Headstone to ?williamson Circa 6 Yards West of Church of St Margaret, Hucking ), British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2015-09-27.〕〔(Headstone to Elizabeth Seers Circa 6 Yards West of Church of St Margaret, Hucking ), British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2015-09-27.〕 The local pub, the ''Hook & Hatchet'', was a traditional Kentish pub and, according to website of brewers and operators Shepherd Neame, had been run as such for around 100 years after a local family applied for a "beer and cider" only licence in the late 19th century. The pub was put up for sale by the brewery in early 2015 and closed. An attempt to buy the pub, designated as an asset of community value, was made.〔Young. A, (Action group set up to protect the Hook and Hatchet pub in Hucking ), ''Kent Online'', 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2015-09-27.〕〔Sutherland.E, (Residents of hamlet with less than 100 people pledge to buy their local ), ''The Publican's Morning Advertiser'', 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2015-09-27.〕 A possibly earlier building of the same name was in use as a pub from at least the first half of the 19th Century. The building is listed in the 1841 Census, with Elizabeth Sherwood as publican. A Parcelforce van allegedly used in the Securitas depot robbery was recovered from the car park of the ''Hook & Hatchet'' on 23 February 2006. Metal cages and packaging material, that may have been used to transport the money, were recovered in a field in nearby Detling on Friday 24 February 2006〔(Money found after Securitas raid ), BBC news website, 2006-02-24.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hucking」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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