Fockerby

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Fockerby is a village in the civil parish of Garthorpe and Fockerby, in the North Lincolnshire district, in the ceremonial county of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated approximately south-east from Goole and west from the River Trent. Fockerby for centuries was part of the ancient parish of Adlingfleet. The village of Fockerby was situated within the Wapentake of Osgoldcross in the historic county of Yorkshire West Riding. Fockerby is part of the Isle of Axholme and close to the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire. It is contiguous with the village of Garthorpe to the north-east, with which it forms one community joined by a section of road which crosses the previous course of the River Don. over the previous course of the River Don

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