Docker is a hamlet in the civil parish of Whittington,

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district, north of Arkholme and south west of Whittington. There are two grade 2

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s: Docker Hall farmhouse and Docker Cottage. The ''

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'' records that the township of Whittington "was formerly divided into two parts, Whittington proper to the north ... and

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with Docker to the south", and its earliest mention of Docker is a "Henry Brabin of Docker" (1585).

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