page_title: Cocking Foundry
section_title: Products
hierarchical_section_title: Cocking Foundry / Products
caption_attribution_description: English: Water wheel for the Lurgashall Watermill
context_page_description: Cocking Foundry is an abandoned iron foundry in the South Downs of England. It was situated to the north of the village of Cocking, West Sussex and was active for most of the 19th century. The foundry's output included wheels for watermills, some of which remain in use.
context_section_description: The majority of the foundry's output would have been the manufacture of agricultural implements etc. but the foundry also produced wheels for watermills in the vicinity, including the mill at Cocking village. (This was removed for scrap during World War II as the mill had ceased commercial milling in 1918.) In the churchyard at Cocking there are several iron crosses which are also believed to have been manufactured at Cocking Foundry.
  The waterwheel at Bex Mill, just downstream from the foundry, is engraved to show that it was cast by "Moaze, Engineer & Millwright, of Midhurst, at Cocking Foundry"; no  other references to Moaze have been found.
  Two waterwheels manufactured at the foundry remain in use in local museums. The waterwheel on the mill at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton was made at the Cocking foundry for Costers Mill at West Lavington. After Costers Mill was closed, the wheel was moved to Lurgashall and installed by millwright James Lee, of Midhurst, to replace the original wooden wheel. The wheel is 12 ft (3.7 m) in diameter and when the mill is grinding it rotates at about 6 r.p.m., with each turn needing about 320 imp gal (1,450 l; 380 US gal) of water; it is an overshot wheel consisting of 40 buckets. The mill was presented to the museum by the Leconfield Estate in 1973 and re-erected on its present site in 1977.
  At Coultershaw, where the River Rother is crossed by the A285, are situated the former Coultershaw Mill and the Coultershaw Beam Pump. The original Beam Pump was installed in 1872 on the instructions of the 3rd Earl of Egremont to improve the water supply to Petworth House and the town of Petworth. The pump is driven by an 11 ft (3.4 m) diameter breastshot waterwheel, cast at Cocking Foundry in the mid-19th century.
caption: Water wheel for the Lurgashall Watermill awaiting installation at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in August 1977
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