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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tarbock like this:
TARBOCK, or Torbock, a township in Huyton parish, Lancashire; 3¼ miles S of Prescot. Acres, 2,447. Real property, £4,623. Pop., 626. Houses, 116. Extensive collieries were here, but are now nearly exhausted. There is a brewery.
Tarbock is now part of KNOWSLEY District. Click here for graphs and data of how KNOWSLEY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Tarbock itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Tarbock, in Knowsley and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/10916
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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