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Blencogo

Village in Cumbria, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	New Inn, Blencogo - geograph.org.uk - 564931.jpg
static_image_caption	The New Inn public house, Blencogo
coordinates
official_name	Blencogo
civil_parish	Bromfield
unitary_england	Cumberland
lieutenancy_england	Cumbria
region	North West England
constituency_westminster	Penrith and Solway
post_town	WIGTON
postcode_district	CA7
postcode_area	CA
dial_code	01697
os_grid_reference	NY195478
pushpin_map	United Kingdom Allerdale
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Allerdale, Cumbria

Blencogo is a small farming village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Bromfield, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It is situated near Wigton, on the Solway Plain, off the B3502 Wigton to Silloth road. The village is a centre for growing osier willow for basketmaking and related crafts. In 1931 the parish had a population of 139.

Toponymy

Armstrong, et al. cite Ekwall, who "derives this name from Welsh 'blaen' 'top'...and 'cog' 'cuckoo' to which was later added ON 'haugr' 'hill' ". However, they say that it is more probable that the final element "is the British plural inflexion (Welsh '-au', Cornish '-ow', Breton '-ou')." So, ' hill of the cuckoo or cuckoos'.('ON' is Old Norse; 'British' is Common Brittonic).

History

Blencogo first appears in literature around 1100 CE when the Lord Waltheof of Allerdale gives the barony of Blencogo to Odard de Logis. Numerous land transfers are made to Holme Cultram Abbey in over the next 150 years. Land transfers and grants for Blencogo also appear in the patent and charter rolls for Edward III (1342), Richard II (1388), Henry IV (1399), Henry VI (1426), Edward IV (1474), and Henry VII (1543).

Blencogo was formerly a township in Bromfield parish, from 1866 Blencogo was a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1934 and merged with Bromfield.

Notable residents

Jonathan Boucher (1738-1804), born here

References

"Population statistics Blencogo Tn/CP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
Ekwall, Eilert. (1922). "The place-names of Lancashire". Chetham Society.
Armstrong, A. M.. (1950). "The place-names of Cumberland". Cambridge University Press.
Ritson, Joseph. ''Annals of the Caledonians, Picts, and Scots; and of Strathclyde, Cumberland, Galloway, and Murray, Volume the Second.'' Edinburgh: Ballantyne and Company, 1828. 235.
Grainger, Francis & William Gershom Collingwood. ''The Register and Records of Holm Cultram.'' London: T. Wilson & Sons, 1929.
"History of Blencogo, in Allerdale and Cumberland". A Vision of Britain through Time.
"Relationships and changes Blencogo Tn/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.

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