Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COCKLE-PARK

COCKLE-PARK, a township in Hebburn parochial chapelry, Northumberland; 3 miles N of Morpeth. Acres, 1, 335. Pop., 42. Houses, 7. Cockle Park Tower was anciently a stronghold of the Bertrams, and is machicolated.


(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: Northumberland AncC
Place: Cockle Park

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