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COCKERSAND ABBEY, an extra-parochial tract in the district and county of Lancaster; at the mouth of the rivulet Cocker, 6¾ miles SSW of Lancaster. A Pre-monstratensian abbey, on the site of a previous hermitage and hospital, was founded here, in 1190, by Theobald, brother of Archbishop Hubert; was restored, for a short time, after the dissolution; and is now represented by its octagonal chapter-house, and part of the other walls. It belongs to the Daltons of Thurnham; and is sometimes called Thurnham-Abbey.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"ABBEY FARM, an extra-parochial place, in the township of Thurnham, and hundred of Lonsdale, in the county palatine of Lancaster, 4 miles to the S.W. of Lancaster. It was the site of Cockerham abbey."
"COCKERSAND ABBEY, an extra-parochial place in the county of Lancaster, 6 miles S.W. of Lancaster. It was founded in 1190, and is in ruins, except the chapter house."
"PLOVER SCAR, a rock in the estuary of the river Lune, county Lancaster. A lighthouse was erected on it in 1847."
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In 1835 Cockersand Abbey was a township in the parish of Cockerham.
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For probate purposes prior to 1858, Cockersand Abbey was in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, in the Diocese of Chester. The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Richmond are held at the Lancashire Record Office.
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