Docker
DOCKER, a township, in the parish and union of Kendal, Kendal ward, county of Westmorland, 4ΒΌ miles (N. E. by E.) from Kendal; containing 82 inhabitants. At Docker Garths the Lancaster and Carlisle railway crosses Fiddler's Ghill, by a viaduct of six arches, each of fifty feet span; the extreme height of the erection being eighty feet. This viaduct, from its magnitude, and the difficulties attending its construction, occupied more than a year in building; it was commenced 14th May 1845, and completed 29th June 1846: more fatal accidents occurred in the formation of it than in any other part of the line.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.