Cockerham is a small village and

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within the

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district in

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, England. It is south of Lancaster and north-northwest of Preston. Lying on the River Cocker, at the estuary of the

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, the parish had a population of 671 at the 2011 Census. Cockerham has lain within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the

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, having previously formed a

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and parish within the hundred of Lonsdale. Between 1894 and 1974, Cockerham lay within the

Lancaster Rural District Lancaster Rural District was a rural district in the county of Lancashire, England. It was created in 1894 and abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It was made up of 22 civil parishes to the north and south of the city of Lancas ...

. Medieval life of Cockerham manor has been recorded in the ''Custumal of the Manor of Cockerham'', compiled in 1326–1327 and revised in 1463. The

custumal A custumal is a England in the Middle Ages, medieval-English document that stipulates the economic, political, and social customs of a Manorialism, manor or town. It is common for it to include an inventory of customs, regular agricultural, tradin ...

, a record of rents and services owed by the tenants to their landlord, combines a local code of laws with an inventory of all resources of the land, from

peat Peat (), also known as turf (), is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs. The peatland ecosystem covers and is the most efficien ...

fuel, cattle and sheep to shoreline

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s. The tenants were forbidden to trade local fuel to the "strangers" who collected mussels on the shore. The local church is St. Michael's. The original parish church was in the middle of the village but was resited on higher ground due to frequent flooding. Close by are the remains of

Cockersand Abbey Cockersand Abbey is a former abbey and former civil parish near Cockerham in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. It is situated near the mouth of the River Cocker. History It was founded before 1184 as the Hospital of St Mar ...

. The village has a pub, the Manor Inn.

Airfields

Cockerham Airfield (also known as Patty's Farm) is west of Cockerham and south of Hillam Lane. Its

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is GB-0611. It is home to the Black Knights Parachute Centre. Tarn Farm Airfield (also known as Rossall Field) is two miles south-west of Cockerham, on Gulf Lane. It is home of The Bay Flying Club, West Lancashire Microlight School. Its airport code is GB-0440.Tarn Farm
– UK Airfield Guide

Gallery

File:Microlight Over Tarn Farm - geograph.org.uk - 1204938.jpg,

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above Tarn Farm Airfield File:Black Knights Parachute Centre (geograph 6430815).jpg, Black Knights Parachute Centre at Patty's Farm

Notes

References

* Bailey, Mark (2002).
The English Manor, c. 1200-1500
'. Manchester medieval sources series. Manchester University Press. .

External links

Cockerham Parish Council
– Rosalind Davies
Cockerham
at GENUKI {{authority control Villages in Lancashire Geography of the City of Lancaster Civil parishes in Lancashire Populated coastal places in Lancashire Morecambe Bay

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