Cockersand Abbey, Lancashire
Historical Description
Cockersand Abbey, formerly extra-parochial, is now a civil parish in Lancashire, at the confluence of the rivers Cocker and Lune, 6½ miles SSW of Lancaster. A Premon-stratensian abbey, on the site of a previous hermitage and hospital, was founded here in 1190 by Theobald, brother of Archbishop Hubert; was restored for a short time after the dissolution; and is now represented by its octagonal chapterhouse and part of the other walls. It belonged to the Daltons of Thurnham, and is sometimes called Thurnham Abbey. The Dalton family are lords of the manor and sole landowners. Post town, Lancaster; money order and telegraph office, Glasson. Acreage, 346, of which 80 are water; population, 46. There is a lighthouse here.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Lancashire | |
Hundred | Lonsdale south of the Sands | |
Poor Law union | Lancaster |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Church Records
Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Lancashire Archives, have images of the Parish Registers for Lancashire online.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Cockersand Abbey from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Cockersand-Abbey)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Lancashire is available to browse.
Newspapers and Periodicals
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