Docker, Lancashire

{{Short description|Hamlet in Lancashire, England}}

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Docker is a hamlet in the civil parish of Whittington, Lancashire, England.The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868 cited in {{cite web |title=Genuki: Docker, Lancashire |url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/Gazetteers/NatGaz1868/Lancashire/Docker |website=www.genuki.org.uk |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}} It is in the City of Lancaster district, north of Arkholme and south west of Whittington.

There are two grade 2 listed buildings: Docker Hall farmhouse{{NHLE|num=1165304|desc=Docker Hall Farmhouse and barns attached on west side|access-date=27 May 2021}} and Docker Cottage.{{NHLE|num=1071647|desc=Docker Cottage|access-date=27 May 2021}}

The Victoria County History records that the township of Whittington "was formerly divided into two parts, Whittington proper to the north ... and Newton with Docker to the south", and its earliest mention of Docker is a "Henry Brabin of Docker" ({{fl}}1585).{{cite book |title=A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8. |date=1914 |publisher=Victoria County History |pages=241–252 |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol8/pp241-252 |access-date=27 May 2021 |chapter=The parish of Whittington}}