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Cockermouth Rugby Football Club is based at the former Cockermouth Grammar School site and can boast that in 1987 it played the first ever rugby union league match when they played Kirby Lonsdale when the Rugby Union formed national and regional leagues, the precursors of what have now become the national and premier leagues.
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Both Keswick Hockey Club and the West Cumbria teams play their home games at the Cockermouth School Astro Turf pitch.
Derwent Valley Cycling Club ( DVCC ) is based in Cockermouth.
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Islands that are protected within the park include Keswick Island, St Bees Island, Cockermouth Island and Scawfell Island, which is the largest in the group.
Another tributary is the River Cocker, which joins the Derwent at Cockermouth, through which the Derwent flows after exiting Bassenthwaite Lake on its now westerly course.
Lying within the Borough of Allerdale, Workington is southwest of Carlisle, west of Cockermouth, and southwest of Maryport.
Workington is linked by the A596 road to Maryport, to Whitehaven via A595 road, by the A66 road to Cockermouth, and the M6 motorway to Penrith and County Durham.
Most of what is now the A66 west of Penrith was originally A594 – only a small stub of this road remains, from Maryport to Cockermouth.
There is a short stretch of two lane dual carriageway alongside the northern part of Bassenthwaite Lake between Keswick and Cockermouth.
The town is served by a range of bus services providing connections with nearby towns such as Cockermouth, Penrith, Windermere and Kendal.
The Keswick dialect is a variant of the Cumbrian dialect spoken around the Keswick and Cockermouth area.
Cockermouth is an ancient market town and civil parish in the Borough of Allerdale in Cumbria, England, and is so named because it is at the confluence of the River Cocker as it flows into the River Derwent.
Historically a part of Cumberland, Cockermouth is situated outside the English Lake District on its northwest fringe.
Cockermouth is situated a few minutes travelling distance from lakes such as Ennerdale, Crummock Water, Loweswater, and Bassenthwaite.
Cockermouth has a cool maritime climate that is influenced by the Irish Sea.
The Kirkgate Centre is the town's major cultural focus and offers regular historical displays by the Cockermouth Museum Group in addition to holding major cultural events including theatre, international music and world cinema.
There is a cycleway which runs along the former Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway route, and spans a high bridge over the Cocker affording views of the town and river-scape.
Cockermouth Castle is a sizeable but partly ruined Norman castle, the home of Pamela, The Dowager Lady Egremont.
Cockermouth School is a comprehensive secondary school with around 1400 pupils including 310 Sixth Formers.
The site is now occupied by Cockermouth Mountain Rescue and the Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters.
Cockermouth is the home town of Belfagan Women's Morris, an all-female team established in 1981 who perform North West morris wearing traditional wooden clogs and using garlands, sticks and hankies in their various dances.
The town is also home to CADS ( Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society ), and the Cumbria Youth Alliance.
Cockermouth is also home to a Detachment of Cumbria Army Cadet Force, a youth organisation present throughout the United Kingdom.
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Later, in 2005, the Jennings Brewery of Cockermouth was also purchased and in 2007 Hampshire based Ringwood Brewery, which was established in 1978, and brews Best Bitter, Fortyniner, and Old Thumper, was acquired.
All the rally cars are built, prepared and run for Ford by M-Sport, the motorsport team based in Cockermouth, Cumbria in Northern England.
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Along with spending time reading in Cockermouth, Wordsworth would also stay at his mother's parents house in Penrith, Cumberland.
John Dalton was born into a Quaker family at Eaglesfield, near Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.
It was not until 1319 that he once more was appointed sheriff, and at the same time made keeper of Carlisle and Cockermouth castles, and Warden of the West Marches.
It follows the A1 ( M ) south to Scotch Corner from where it continues west across the Pennines, past Brough, Appleby, Kirkby Thore, Temple Sowerby, Penrith, Keswick and Cockermouth, and on through the northern reaches of the Lake District, before arriving at the coastal town of Workington.
Cockermouth owes its existence to the confluence of the rivers Cocker and Derwent, being the lowest point, historically, at which the resultant fast flowing river powered by the Lake District could be bridged.
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The son of a clergyman, he was born at Bridekirk near Cockermouth, Cumberland.
Williamson was born at Bridekirk, near Cockermouth, where his father, also called Joseph, was vicar.
Melville secured an opening for him from Viscount Lowther on a vacancy at Cockermouth in January 1807: Melville had suggested that Binning might come in for Haslemere on the same interest instead of Viscount Garlies, when the latter succeeded to the title in November 1806, but Binning had to wait for the next vacancy.
Cockermouth was only available to him for another year, so at the general election of 1807 he found another seat on Lord Clinton ’ s interest at Callington, through their mutual uncle Francis Drake.
As a moderate liberal he unsuccessfully contested Cockermouth in 1835, but was successful at the following election on 15 February 1836, and continued to represent the constituency till 1 July 1852.
Early in his political career ( January 1840 ) Horsman, when addressing his constituents at Cockermouth, denounced James Bradshaw, M. P.
Born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, he was the youngest brother of the poet William Wordsworth, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1798.
and at the general election of 1906 was once more elected for Cockermouth.
John Hudson ( 1662 – November 26, 1719 ), English classical scholar, was born at Wythop, near Cockermouth in Cumberland.
The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway ( CK & PR ) was incorporated by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1861, for a line connecting the town of Cockermouth with the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) West Coast Main Line at Penrith.
Arrangements for the use of the stations at either end ( Cockermouth was already served by the Cockermouth and Workington Railway ( C & WR ) were included.
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