Docker, Cumbria

Docker
Haygarth
Docker is located in Cumbria
Docker
Docker
Location within Cumbria
Population260 (2011, including Lambrigg)[1]
OS grid referenceSD5695
Civil parish
  • Docker
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townKENDAL
Postcode districtLA8
Dialling code01539[2]
PoliceCumbria
FireCumbria
AmbulanceNorth West
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Cumbria
54°21′14″N 2°40′01″W / 54.354°N 2.667°W / 54.354; -2.667

Docker is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. Docker is 4.3 miles north east of the market town of Kendal. At the 2011 census Docker was grouped with Lambrigg giving a total population of 260.[1]

In 1870–1872, John Marius Wilson from the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Docker as: "a township in Kendal parish, Westmoreland; near the river Mint and the Lancaster and Carlisle railway 3 miles ENE of Kendal"[3]

  1. ^ a b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Docker Parish (E04002601)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  2. ^ "BT Phone book". Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  3. ^ Wilson, John Marius (1870). Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales. South Lakeland and Westmorland: A. Fullerton & Co. Retrieved 27 January 2015.