Tockington Village
One of your first views of the Parish of Olveston, after driving down Fern Hill from the A38, will be the Swan, the seventeenth century inn on the right of this picture.
With the White Hart at Olveston and The Fox at Old Down, it is one of three inns which still survive in the parish.
Tockington is the most easterly of the villages in the parish. It is located at a triangular junction with The Green at its centre. The Green is shown in the sketch below. A Fayre has been held there each autumn for more years than anyone can remember.
The spelling of Tockington has varied over the years. The Domesday Book records it as Tockintone, and later the name passed through Tokinton to Toketon and then Tockington.
At the centre of The Green, and, shown in the centre of the sketch, is the site of an old cross where outside worship took place.
In the sketch below, we are looking back towards the Swan from The Green, on the left, and the Methodist Chapel ,on the right. The edge of the green is in the foreground.
