Description
Cockersand Abbey, formerly extra-parochial, is now a civil parish in Lancashire, at the confluence of the rivers Cocker and Lune, 6 1/2 miles SSW of Lancaster. A Premonstratensian 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 chapterhouse and part of the other walls. It belonged to the Daltons of Thurnham, and is sometimes called Thurnham Abbey. The Dalton family are lords of the manor and sole landowners. Post town, Lancaster; money order and telegraph office, Glasson. Acreage, 346, of which 80 are water; population, 46. There is a lighthouse here.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
