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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Corney like this:
CORNEY, a parish in Bootle district, Cumberland; on the Furness railway, 2 miles N of Bootle r. station, and 4 SSE of Ravenglass. Post town, Bootle, under Whitehaven. Acres, 3, 890. Real property, £2, 294-Pop., 256. Houses, 51. The property is much divided. The living is a rectory in the dio. of Carlisle. Value, £140. Patron, the Earl of Lonsdale. The church is old.
Corney is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Corney itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Corney in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1550
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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