Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLENCOGO

BLENCOGO, a township in Bromfield parish, Cumberland; near the Carlisle and Maryport railway, 4 ½ miles WSW of Wigton. Acres, 1,697. Real property, £2,649. Pop., 218. Houses, 37. Boucher, who supplemented Johnson's Dictionary, was a native.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Blencogo CP/Tn       Bromfield Tn/CP/AP       Cumberland AncC
Place: Blencogo

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