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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cocklaw like this:
COCKLAW, a township in St. John-Lee parish, Northumberland; near the Roman wall and the North Tyne river, 4½ miles N of Hexham. Acres, 3, 666. Pop., 200. Houses, 38. Cocklaw tower here, now a ruin, w as the seat of the Erringtons.
Cocklaw is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cocklaw itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cocklaw in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8933
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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