Docker, Cumbria

For the port worker, see Stevedore.

Coordinates: 54°21′14″N 2°40′01″W / 54.354°N 2.667°W / 54.354; -2.667

Docker
Haygarth
Docker  Docker shown within Cumbria
Population	55 (2001)
OS grid reference	SD5695
Parish	Docker
District	South Lakeland
Shire county	Cumbria
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	KENDAL
Postcode district	LA8
Dialling code	01539
Police	Cumbria
Fire	Cumbria
Ambulance	North West
EU Parliament	North West England
UK Parliament	Westmorland and Lonsdale
List of places: UK • England • Cumbria

Docker is a civil parish in the South Lakeland district of the English county of Cumbria. It has a population of 55.

Etymology

Diana Whalley 2006 'A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names', English Place Name Society, has this name as either place-name 'the shieling at the hollow' or 'the shieling where the plant called dock grows', or a personal name which "may have been a link with the family traced in Parker 1918" (Parker CA 'A pedigree of the family of Docker'. CW2 18, 161-73). Whalley also refers to "the same problematic syllable in Dockray and ... Dockray Nook" (NY3921 & NY0820).