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 through time
Cocklaw is now part of Tynedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Tynedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cocklaw itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cocklaw, in Tynedale and Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/8933
Date accessed: 23rd April 2024
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