Description
Blencow, Great, a township in Dacre parish, Cumberland, 4 1/2 miles WNW of Penrith. It has a station on the Cockermouth railway, and a post office under Penrith, both of the name of Blencow; money order and telegraph office, Greystoke. There is a free grammar school founded in 1576 by Thomas Burbank.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
