Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL

SOCKBRIDGE AND TIRRIL, a township, with two hamlets, in Barton parish, Westmoreland; 2 miles SSW of Penrith. Acres, 11,818. Real property, £1,784. Pop., 245. Houses, 47. S. Hall was the seat of the Lancasters, and is now a farm-house.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township, with two hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Barton CP       Westmorland AncC
Place: Sockbridge

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