Cockerham

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Coordinates: 53°57′58″N 2°48′53″W / 53.966067°N 2.814838°W

Cockerham
The western façade of St. Michael's Church
Cockerham Cockerham shown within Lancashire
Population	558 (2001)
OS grid reference	SD465525
- London	204 mi (328 km) SE
Civil parish	Cockerham
District	Lancaster
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	LANCASTER
Postcode district	LA2
Dialling code	01524
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Lancaster and Wyre
List of places UK England Lancashire

Cockerham is a small village and civil parish within the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Lancaster and 15 miles (24 km) north-northwest of Preston. Located on the River Cocker, at the estuary of the River Lune, it has a total resident population of 558.^[1]

Cockerham has lain within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the Middle Ages^{[citation needed]} having previously formed a township and parish within the hundred of Lonsdale and district of Lancaster.^[2] Between 1894 and 1974, Cockerham lay within the Lancaster Rural District.^[3]

The name of Lathwaite Farm, one of several old farms in the area, has Viking roots: lath meaning "farm" and waite meaning "barn". Medieval life of Cockerham manor has been recorded in the Custumal of the Manor of Cockerham, compiled in 1326–1327 and revised in 1463. The custumal, a record of rents and services owed by the tenants to their landlord, combines a local code of laws with an inventory of all resources of the land, from peat fuel, cattle and sheep to shoreline mussels.^[4] The tenants were forbidden to trade local fuel to the "strangers" who collected mussels on the shore.^[5]

The local church is St. Michael's. The original parish church was in the middle of the village but was resited on higher ground due to frequent flooding.

Close by are the remains of Cockersand Abbey. The village has a pub, the Manor Inn, though there have been at least two in the past.

Black Knights Parachute Centre is based in Cockerham.

Gallery

Looking west towards the coast
St. Michael's Church eastern façade
A sunset in Cockerham

Notes

↑ United Kingdom Census 2001. "Cockerham CP (Parish)". neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
↑ "A Vision of Cockerham AP/CP". Lancaster RD Local Government District. Retrieved 2010-05-14.
↑ Lancaster RD Local Government District. "A Vision of Lancaster RD". Retrieved 2007-06-13.
↑ Bailey, p. 61.
↑ Bailey, p. 66.

References

Bailey, Mark (2002). The English Manor, c. 1200-1500. Manchester medieval sources series. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5229-7.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cockerham.

Cockerham Parish Council, Official website.
Cockerham Life, Cockerham village website.
A history of Cockerham
Cockerham, GENUKI article.

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