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Blencogo

Blencogo
New Inn, Blencogo - geograph.org.uk - 564931.jpg
The New Inn public house, Blencogo
Blencogo is located in Cumbria
Blencogo
Blencogo
Blencogo shown within Cumbria
OS grid reference NY195478
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WIGTON
Postcode district CA7
Dialling code 01697
Police Cumbria
Fire Cumbria
Ambulance North West
EU Parliament North West England
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England
Cumbria
54°49′08″N 3°15′07″W / 54.819°N 3.252°W / 54.819; -3.252Coordinates: 54°49′08″N 3°15′07″W / 54.819°N 3.252°W / 54.819; -3.252

Blencogo is a small farming village near Wigton in Cumbria, England. It is situated on the Solway Plain in the Allerdale Borough Council area, off the B3502 Wigton to Silloth road. The village is a centre for growing osier willow for basketmaking and related crafts.

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).

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).



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