Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for COCKERINGTON (South)

COCKERINGTON (South), a parish in Louth district, Lincoln; near the East Lincoln railway, 3¼ miles NE of Louth. Post town, Louth. Acres, 1,880. Real property, £2, 920. Pop., 300. Houses, 71. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lincoln. Value, £163. Patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. The chur. ch is late perpendicular English, and contains an effigies of Sir A. Scrope, who died in 1623. There are three Methodist chapels.


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

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

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