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Docker Nook, Longsleddale
Docker Nook
locality:-   Longsleddale
civil parish:-   Longsleddale (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY50460131
1Km square:-   NY5001
10Km square:-   NY50


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BJF16.jpg (taken 2.10.2004)  
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BSM20.jpg (taken 11.4.2010)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 27 15) 
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
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"Docker Nook"

evidence:-   census returns:- 
placename:-  Docker Nook
placename:-  Dockernook

 old parish registers (formerly )

evidence:-   old map:- Jefferys 1770 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Map, 4 sheets, The County of Westmoreland, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, surveyed 1768, and engraved and published by Thomas Jefferys, London, 1770.
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"Docker Nook"
circle, labelled in italic lowercase text; settlement, farm, house, or hamlet? 
item:-  National Library of Scotland : EME.s.47
Image © National Library of Scotland

evidence:-   old map:- Cary 1789 (edn 1805) 
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Westmoreland, scale about 2.5 miles to 1 inch, by John Cary, London, 1789; edition 1805.
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"Docker Nook"
block/s, labelled in italic lowercase; house, or hamlet 
item:-  JandMN : 129
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evidence:-   old map:- Hall 1820 (Wmd) 
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, Westmoreland ie Westmorland, scale about 14.5 miles to 1 inch, by Sidney Hall, London, 1820, published by Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand, London, 1820-31.
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"Docker Nook"
circle, italic lowercase text; settlement 
item:-  Armitt Library : 2008.14.58
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evidence:-   old map:- Hodgson 1828
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Map, hand coloured engraving, 4 sheets mounted together on linen and rolled, Plan of the County of Westmorland, scale about 1.25 inches to 1 mile, by Thomas Hodgson, engraved by W R Gardner, Harpur Street, London, published by Thomas Hodgson, Lancaster, and perhaps by C Smith, 172 Strand, London,1828.
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map courtesy of Mark Cropper
"Docker Nook"
item:-  private collection : 371
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 Kendal Corn Rent Act 1836

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
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"Docker Nook"
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
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evidence:-   old map:- OS 1881-82 New Series (outline edition) 
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Map, engraving, area north of Kendal, Westmorland, New Series one inch map, outline edition, sheet 39, scale 1 inch to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, 1881-82.
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"Docker Nook"
item:-  JandMN : 61
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evidence:-   records:- Curwen 1926
placename:-  Dockernook
item:-  fence
source data:-   Records Relating to the Barony of Kendale, supplementary vol.3, edited by John F Curwen, published by Titus Wilson and Son, Kendal, Westmorland, 1926.
CURWEN01.txt
"1699/1700 January 12 : Roger Lickbarrow of Dockernook in Longsleddale, yeo., indicted for obstructing the common highway there leading from Kilne Stone to Dockernook Field, by raising a fence. Found not guilty on 11 October, 1700. K. Indictment Book, 1692-1724."

evidence:-   descriptive text:- 
source data:-   Royal Commission on Historical Monuments in England: 1936: Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Westmorland: HMSO "[17th century, 2 storey, rubble walls, slate roofs] ... built late in the 17th or early in the 18th century."

 census records

 directory entries

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Docker Nook Farm
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"DOCKER NOOK FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS / / / LONGSLEDDALE / SOUTH LAKELAND / CUMBRIA / II / 76405 / NY5047401319"

evidence:-   map:- OS Six Inch (1956) 
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Map series, various editions with the national grid, scale about 6 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, scale 1 to 10560 from 1950s to 1960s, then 1 to 10000 from 1960s to 2000s, superseded by print on demand from digital data.
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"Docker Nook"

evidence:-   shepherds guide:- Wilson 1913
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Book, New Shepherd's Guide for Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire, by Thomas Wilson, 1913.
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"J. Dawson, Docker Nook; ritted near ear, forked far ear, red pop on near hock, red D on far side, J D on both horns."
item:-  private collection : 329
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evidence:-   shepherds guide:- Gate 1879
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Book, New Shepherd's Guide for Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, published by Daniel Gate, Keswick, Cumberland, 1879.
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"A. W. LONG, Docker Nook; ritted near, forked far, pop on near hock, L on near side, AL on horn."
item:-  Kendal Library : 38
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evidence:-   shepherds guide:- Hodgson 1849
placename:-  Dockernook
source data:-   Book, Shepherd's Guide, or a Delineation of the Wool and Ear Marks of the Different Stocks of Sheep, Lancashire, Cumberland, and Westmorland, by William Hodgson, Normoss, Corney, Cumberland, 1849.
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"JAMES ATKINSON, Dockernook."
"Ritted near ear, forked far, a red pop on the near hock, G on the near side, JA on the horn."
item:-  Kendal Library : 39
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evidence:-   shepherds guide:- Lamb 1937
placename:-  Docker Nook
source data:-   Book, Lamb's Shepherds' Guide for Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, by R H Lamb, published by the Herald Printing Co, Penrith, Cumberland, 1937.
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"William Farrer, Docker Nook. Red pop on near hook, W F burn on horn."
item:-  Kendal Library : 40
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BIQ22.jpg  Docker Nook Farm flock, swaledale sheep; blue pop on near hook.
(taken 22.4.2004)  


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BJF15.jpg (taken 2.10.2004)  
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BIO16.jpg (taken 3.2004)  


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BIQ23.jpg  Mole catcher's gibbet on an electricity supply pole, Docker Nook, Longsleddale, Westmorland, 22 April 2004.
(taken 22.4.2004)  

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There is said to have been a potash kiln here.

: 2009: Archaeology Data Service

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