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=== Place-names === [[File:La cucaña.jpg|thumb|[[Francisco Goya]]: ''[[La cucaña]]'' ("The Greasy Pole", {{Circa|1786}})]] * The Dutch village of [[Kockengen]] in the province of [[Utrecht (province)|Utrecht]] is likely to have been named after Cockaigne by the local clergy, who established farms and peat-cutting settlements in the area.<ref>Herman Pleij, {{cite book|url=https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dreaming-of-cockaigne/9780231117029 |title=''Dreaming of Cockaigne: Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life'' |publisher=Columbia University Press |date=July 2003 |pages=398–400|isbn=9780231529211 }}</ref> * The Canadian town of [[Cocagne]], New Brunswick, at the mouth of the Cocagne river, was named after Cockaigne. * The English village of [[Cockayne Hatley]] in [[Bedfordshire]] was named after the Cokayne family, who took possession of the land in 1417.<ref name="auto"/>
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