Description
Cocklaw, a township in St Oswald-in-Lee ecclesiastical parish, Northumberland, near the Roman wall and the North Tyne river, 4 1/4 miles N of Hexham, and 1 mile from Chollerton station on the North British railway. Post town, Wall; money order and telegraph office, Humshaugh. Acreage, 3764;. population, 154. Cocklaw Tower here, now a ruin, was the seat of the Erringtons. The church of St Oswald is in this township. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Newcastle ; net value, £146, in the gift of W. B. Beaumont, Esq.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
