Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cockthorpe

Cockthorpe.-- par., N. Norfolk, near coast, 4 miles SE. of Wells ry. sta., 514 ac., pop. 80; birthplace of Sir Christopher Mengs, Sir John Narborough, and Sir Cloudesley Shovel (1650-1707), famous old admirals.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cockthorpe CP/AP       Norfolk AncC
Place: Cockthorpe

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