Mockerkin is a settlement in the English county of

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part of

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, it is situated just outside the

Lake District National Park The Lake District, also known as ''the Lakes'' or ''Lakeland'', is a mountainous region and National parks of the United Kingdom, national park in Cumbria, North West England. It is famous for its landscape, including its lakes, coast, and mou ...

. It lies by road south of

Cockermouth Cockermouth is a market town and civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. The name refers to the town's position by the confluence of the River Cocker into the River Derwent. At the 2021 census, the built u ...

., east of

Whitehaven Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies outside the Lake District National parks of England and Wales, National Park. ...

, south-west of

Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. Carlisle's early history is marked by the establishment of a settlement called Luguvalium to serve forts along Hadrian's Wall in Roman Britain. Due to its pro ...

and to the north of

Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness is a port town and civil parish (as just "Barrow") in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in the county of Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borou ...

. The name probably derives from the hill-top of a man called Corcán.

Governance

Mockerkin is within the Penrith and Solway UK parliamentary constituency. For

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purposes it is in the

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. The village also has its own Parish Council; ''Loweswater Parish Council'', which is part of ''The Melbreak Communities'' (comprising the four parishes of ''Blindbothel'', ''Buttermere'', ''Lorton'' and ''Loweswater'').

References

External links

Cumbria County History Trust: Loweswater
(nb: provisional research only – see Talk page) Villages in Cumbria Loweswater (village) {{Cumbria-geo-stub