Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TARBOCK, or Torbock

TARBOCK, or Torbock, a township in Huyton parish, Lancashire; 3¼ miles S of Prescot. Acres, 2,447. Real property, £4,623. Pop., 626. Houses, 116. Extensive collieries were here, but are now nearly exhausted. There is a brewery.


(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: Huyton AP/CP       Tarbock CP/Tn       Lancashire AncC
Place names: TARBOCK     |     TARBOCK OR TORBOCK     |     TORBOCK
Place: Tarbock

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