In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cockerham like this:
COCKERHAM, a township and a parish in the district and county of Lancaster. The township lies on the Cocker rivulet, adjacent to the Lancaster canal, and the Lancaster and Preston railway, 2 miles SW of Bay Horse r. station, and 4½ NNW of Garstang; and has a post office under Garstang, Lancashire, and a fair on Easter Monday. ...
Acres, 4, 860. Real property, £8, 078. Pop., 778. Houses, 131. The parish contains also the township of Ellel and part of the township of Thurnham. Acres, 10, 480. Real property, with the rest of Thurnham, £20, 561. Pop., 2, 922. Houses, 530. The property is much subdivided. Thurnham is the seat of the Daltons. Some of the inhabitants are employed in cotton and silk mills. The living is a vicarage in the diocese. of Manchester. Value, £640.* Patrons, the Lords of the manor. The church is in the pointed style, and has a . spire. The p. curacies of Ellel, Shireshead, and Dolphinholme are separate benefices. There are three dissenting chapels and an endowed school.
Cockerham through time
Cockerham is now part of Lancaster district. Click here for graphs and data of how Lancaster has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cockerham itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cockerham, in Lancaster and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10053
Date accessed: 29th March 2024
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