In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Corkickle like this:

CORKICKLE, a village in Preston-Quarter township, St. Bees parish, Cumberland; on the Whitehaven and Furness railway, in the southern vicinity of Whitehaven. It has a station on the railway.

Corkickle through time

Corkickle is now part of CUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how CUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Corkickle itself, go to Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Corkickle in Cumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/26357

Date accessed: 08th April 2026


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