Hockley is a big town and also civil parish in Essex in the East of England situated in between Chelmsford as well as Southend-on-Sea, or, a lot more particularly, between Rayleigh as well as Rochford. It involved prominence during the resulting the train in the 1890s and at the 2001 census had a population of 13,616 people, decreasing to 9,616 at the 2011 Census, much of whom commute to London. The parish of Hockley itself has a population of 8,909 (2001 census), while the urban area encounters the adjoining parish of Hawkwell. Hockley train station serves the village.