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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Blencogo like this:
BLENCOGO, a township in Bromfield parish, Cumberland; near the Carlisle and Maryport railway, 4 ½ miles WSW of Wigton. Acres, 1,697. Real property, £2,649. Pop., 218. Houses, 37. Boucher, who supplemented Johnson's Dictionary, was a native.
Blencogo is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Blencogo itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Blencogo in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2574
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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