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Thread #14846   Message #130073
Posted By: Chris Nixon
31-Oct-99 - 01:00 PM
Thread Name: Northumbrian Fishing Songs
Subject: RE: NORTHUMBRIAN FISHING SONGS
A "Cockett" is in fact the Coquet - a river that flows down Coquetdale via Rothbury to the North Sea at Amble. Offshore lies Coquet Island. Large inshore fishing grounds just North of Newcastle...