Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROCK

BROCK, a station on the Lancaster and Preston railway, 2 miles S by E of Garstang, in Lancashire. Claughton Hall, a mansion of the time of Charles I., now a farmhouse, and stone quarries are in the neighbourhood.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Lancashire Ancient County
Place: Brock

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