Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Thurnham

Thurnham.-- township, Lancaster and Cockerham pars., N. Lancashire, 4½ miles S. of Lancaster, 2095 ac. (504 water), pop. 721; contains Thurnham Hall, seat, near ruins of Thurnham Abbey, or COCKERSAND ABBEY: which see.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lancashire AncC
Place: Thurnham

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