Cocklaw, Northumberland
Historical Description
Cocklaw, a township in St Oswald-in-Lee ecclesiastical parish, Northumberland, near the Roman wall and the North Tyne river, 4¼ miles N of Hexham, and 1 mile from Chollerton station on the North British railway. Post town, Wall; money order and telegraph office, Humshaugh. Acreage, 3764;. population, 154. Cocklaw Tower here, now a ruin, was the seat of the Erringtons. The church of St Oswald is in this township. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle; net value, £146, in the gift of W. B. Beaumont, Esq.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northumberland | |
| Poor Law union | Hexham | |
| Ward | Tindale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cocklaw from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Cocklaw are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online: