COCKE1UNGTON, NORTH. 619 COCKFIELD. tiles S. of Lancaster, and Ij W. from Bay Horse station.
- is situated on the river Cocker, near the Preston canal
ad railway, and contains the districts of Shireshead, llel, and Dolphinholme, each of which have their own lurch and ecclesiastical establishments. The parish lurch, dedicated to St. Michael, is in the pointed style
- ' architecture. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of
lam-heater, val. 640, in the patron, of the lords of the .anor. There is a parochial school for both sexes, ith an endowment of 11 per annum; also a Sunday
- hool. The population are principally employed in
,Ticulture, but there are two cotton mills and one silk ill in tho parish. At Cockerham Point and Plover Rock, entrance of tho bay, are two fixed lights, which ,ay be seen at 9 miles distance, put up in 1847, to direct issels entering the channel. At Thurnham is a fine d mansion, the seat of tho Daltons. Thomas Green, . A. Clarke, J. Villiers Dent, and the Rev. R. Atkin- 11 are lords of the manor. A fair is held on the 24th I'.ir horned cattle. COCKERINGTON, NORTH, a par. in the Wold v. of tho hund. of Louth-Eske, parts of Lindsey, in if Lincoln, 4 miles from Louth, its post town, ud S from the Louth station of the Great Northern Thn living is a porpet. cur. united with mi. Tho church is dedicated to St. Mary. The inritit s produce about 30 per annum. There is an 1 school, founded by the Scropes.
- KR IXGTON, SOUTH, a par. in the co. of Lin-
In. adjoining North Cockerington, and 5 miles from Newark station of tho Great Northern railway.
- e living is a discharged vie. in the archdeac. and dioc.
! Lincoln, val. 163, in the patron, of the bishop. The i dedicated to St. Leonard. The tithes were com- i 1765. This place for many generations has been le seat of a branch of the Serope family, one of whom, ir Adrian Scropc, was a warm adherent of Charles II., nd was left for dead on the field of Edgehill, but was I through the skill of Dr. William Harvey, the iscovercr of the circulation of the blood. Another '.ember of this family, a relative and namesake of the
- LC, fought on tho side of the parliament, and
(forwards signed the warrant for beheading the king, ir which, in October, 1660, he suffered death. COCKER MOUTH, a parliamentary borough, market wn, and chplry., in tho par. of Brigham, in the ward 1' Allerdale-above-Derwent, in tho co. of Cumberland, miles E. of Workington, and 151 N.W. of White- wen. It has a station on the Cockermouth and Work- igton branch of the North-Western railway. A new 10 is in course of construction from Coekermouth, jough the vale of tho Dcrwcnt, to join the Lancaster nd Carlisle line near Penrith. It was a place of great utiquity, as proved by a stone font recently dug up i the neighbourhood of tho town, which bears an iscription in mingled Saxon and Runic, implying .at " here Ekard was converted to Christianity, and ) this man's example were the Danes brought." hortly after the Conquest, a strong castle was built n a precipitous eminence to the N. of the town, the alls of which are about 600 yards in circumference, nd of great thickness. The honour was at that me held by Waltheof, Lord of Allcrdale, son of the Url of Northumberland, and subsequently came into c possession of Piers Gavestone. Between the reigns f Edward I. and Charles I. the borough returned no presentativcs to parliament. The castle and town ere held during the civil war of tho 17th century for 10 parliament, and in August, 1648, were besieged by bO Cumberland royalists, but Lieut. -Colonel Ashtcn, uderthe command of Cromwell, soon relieved it. The 'Wn, which, from its situation at the confluence of the .vers Cocker and Derwont, has always enjoyed a con- lerable trade, especially in woollen cloths, hats, stock- ..'s, and such like manufactures, is well built. It lincipally consists of two streets, with several cross eots, which are well lighted with gas, but badly paved, '.-ept the High-street. The houses are of stone, with ' tte roofs, and there is a fine promenade of a mile in length along the N. bank of the river Dervverrt, bounded at tho one end by wooded cliffs, and at tho other by the ruins of the old castle. The rivers Derwent and Cocker are crossed by several stone bridges. The town, which has recently been much improved, contains a market- house, court-house, literary institution, Agricultural Society, and Union workhouse. It is a parliamentary borough, returning two members, but not a municipal, being under the jurisdiction of the county magistrates, who hold petty sessions here every Monday. The par- liamentary borough comprises, according to the census of 1861, 1,546 houses, inhabited by a population of 7,056, against 7,275 in 1851, showing a decrease of 219 in the decennial period. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Carlisle, val. 120, in tho patron, of the Earl of Lonsdale. The church, dedicated to All Saints, was burnt down in 1850, but a handsome new church was erected on the same site in 1854. The foundation- stone of another church, situated in the lower part of the town, and dedicated to Christ, was laid in 1863. It will contain 1,000 sittings, tho body of the church being free for the poor, but the galleries are to be let to help to pay the clergyman, who will receive the interest of 1,700, generously presented by two friends of tho Bishop of Carlisle, as an endowment fund. The funds for the building were chiefly raised through the exer- tions of the Rev. H. B. L. Puxley, curate to the in- cumbent of All Saints. The register is of early date. The Wesleyans, Independents, Primitive Methodists, Presbyterians, and Roman Catholics have chapels. There is a free grammar school, founded in 1676, be- sides National and infant schools. /Wordsworth, the poet, was a native of this town. The barony, now called the honour of Cockermouth, belongs to the Wyndham family, and gives the title of baron to the earls of Egre- mont. Lord Leconfield is lord of the manor, and owner of the site of the eastlo and chief part of the soil. In the town is tho Old Hall, the seat of the Fletchers, where Mary Queen of Scots was hospitably entertained after her escape from Dunbar Castle. Market day is on Monday. Statute fairs are held on Whit-Monday and Martinmas Monday for the hiring of servants, and cattle fairs on every other Wednesday from May to September, and on the 1 Oth October. COCKERSAND ABBEY, an ext. par. place in the co. of Lancaster, 6 miles S.W. of Lancaster. It was founded in 1190, and is in ruins, except the chapter- house. COCKERTON, a tnshp. in the par. of Darlington, in the south-eastern div. of Darlington ward, in the co. of Durham, 1 mile N.W. of Durham. It is situated on. Cockerbeck stream, a branch of the river Skerne. The Wesleyans have a place of worship. Clare Abbey and Carmel House Convent (late Cockerton Field House) both possess handsome chapels ; the latter is occupied by Carmelite nuns. There are endowed National schools. COCKET, a vil. in the par. of Swansea, in the co. of Glamorgan, South Wales, 1 mile from Swansea. COCKEY. See AINSWOKTH, Lancashire. COCKFIELD, a par. in the south-western div. of Darlington ward, in the co. of Durham, 6 miles N.E. of Barnard Castle, and 7 from Staindrop, its post town ; both which places are railway stations. The river Gaunless flows on the S. of the village, near which are several coal-pits. The living is a rect.* in the dioc. of Durham, val. with the vie.* of Staindrop annexed, 354, The church is an ancient stone edifice. There is also a district church at Ingleton, the living of which is a perpet. cur., val. 165. Both are in the gift of the Duke of Cleveland, whose scat is Raby Park. The parochial charities produce about 5 per annum. COCKFIELD, a par. in the hund. of Babergh, in the co. of Suffolk, 5i miles S.E. of Bury St. Edmund's, and 8 W. of Stowmarket. It contains the hmlts. of Windsor Green, Cross Green, Chester Green, Old Hall Green, Button Green, Parsonage Green, Stow's Hill, Earl's Court, and Great C'oekfield Green. The manor formerly belonged to Bury Abbey, and was afterwards held by the De Veres, earls of Oxford, who resided at Earl's
