MOCKBRIDGE
The ancient Mock Bridge crossing the River Adur; it carries the A281 between Cowfold and Henfield. Mock bridge, by which that road crosses the eastern arm of the Adur, existed by 1296, evidently in succession to a ford, as the local surname Mockford indicates. In 1301 Sir Thomas Peverel of Ewhurst in Shermanbury, the owner, charged an annual toll of 1d. a wagon and ½d. a cart; the prior and monks of Sele in that year were exempted from tolls though the prior's tenants remained liable. A later lord of Ewhurst in 1567 charged tenants of the manor toll for each wagon once a year, but others then paid each time they crossed the bridge. The bridge was destroyed during the Civil War to prevent royalist troops moving eastwards; it had been rebuilt by 1647, when quarter sessions decreed that the expense should fall on the whole rape as the beneficiary of its destruction. The existing stone structure is of 17th-century character, and has four round arches with cutwaters and refuges on both sides. There is a short stone causeway at the north end. The bridge was rebuilt in 1794 and again, by the county council, in 1930.