Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COCKERINGTON (North)

COCKERINGTON (North), a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; near the East Lincoln railway, 3¾ miles NE of Louth. Post town, Louth. Acres, 1, 750. Real property, £2, 640. Pop., 265. Houses, 58. The manor belonged to the Scropes; three of whom were Adrian the regicide, Sir Adrian the royalist, and Sir Carr the poet. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Alvingham, in the diocese of Lincoln. There are three Methodist chapels, a diocesan school, and an alms-house.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: North Cockerington AP/CP       Louth RegD/PLU       Lincolnshire AncC
Place names: COCKERINGTON     |     COCKERINGTON NORTH     |     NORTH COCKERINGTON
Place: North Cockerington

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