Cockayne Hatley is a parish and small village, bordering on Cambridgeshire, 3 miles (5 km) east from the Potton station of the North Western railway, 6 miles (10 km) north-east from Biggleswade and 9 miles (15 km) south-east from St. Neots, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, petty sessional division, union and county count district of Biggleswade, rural deanery of Biggleswade, archdeaconry of Bedford and diocese of Ely.
Cockayne Hatley House, the residence of the Marquess of Granby, is a mansion of brick, standing in a park of about 100 acres (400,000 m²). Henry J. Cockayne Cust esq. is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
The soil is strong clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, turnips, barley, beans and peas. The area is 1,178 acres (4.8 km²); rateable value, £1,021; population in 1891: was 104.
There are 27 houses in Cockayne Hatley, and approximately 60 people live there.
CockayneHatley House, the residence of the Marquess of Granby, is a mansion of brick, standing in a park of about 100 acres.
The 1851 Census Index for CockayneHatley can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 3, Book 2 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
The church of John the Baptist, erected toward the close of the 14th century, is a building of rubble and sandstone, in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, and was completely restored in the year 1803 by the liberality of the Rev. the Hon.
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