The Roman Map of Britain Coccio (vicinity of Edgeworth - Ainsworth?, Lancashire)

Coccio (AI 4821 Iter x)


There is a reasonable inclination to place Coccio in Ainsworth township near Cockey Moor SD 771 102. If this is correct, and Coccio is based on a river name, then Bradshaw Brook is likely the source of the name.

Lancashire Gazetteer, Joseph Aston 1808
Cockey Moor, a pleasant piece of waste, about 3 miles E. of Bolton, surrounded by many houses and a considerable population. Here is a chapel belonging the established church, and a dissenting chapel, attended by a respectable congregation of the Presbyterian persuasion. The Episcopal chapel at Cockey Moor, is in the parish of Middleton; to which place it is a chapel of ease: patron, the rector of Middleton.


E. Waddelove The Location of Roman Coccium? Britannian XXXII (2001) pp 299-304
"...leads to the conclusion that a site in Standish, 4.5 km north-west of Wigan, is the most convincing location."