3-096-276 - Ware in the World/Heritage Images

Cockington Village near Torquay, Devon, c1955. Roger Mallock, an Exeter merchant and Royalist, purchased Cockington from Sir Henry Cary for £10,300 in 1654, founding a family that held the estate until the 20th century. Cockington Village transferred to Torquay in 1928. Cockington Trust Ltd commissioned Edwin Lutyens to redesign Cockington as a model village, with plans for shops, dwellings, craft workshops and an inn. A brochure to this effect was produced in 1935. Of the twenty thatched and limewashed buildings envisaged, only the Drum Inn opened on 23 May 1936. The rest of the scheme was not completed, as funds ran out and the Second World War intervened. In 1991, the estate was designated a country park.