Chapter ABADA to ACHÁNOCK of A by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

expedient to send a detachment of troops .… to take possession of Tanna Fort and Charnoc’s Battery opposite to it.”—Narrative of Dutch attempt in the Hoogly, in Malcolm’s Life of Clive, ii. 76.

1810.—“The old village of Achanock stood on the ground which the post of Barrackpore now occupies.”—M. Graham, 142.

1848.—“From an oral tradition still prevalent among the natives at Barrackpore … we learn that Mr. Charnock built a bungalow there, and a flourishing bazar arose under his patronage, before the settlement of Calcutta had been determined on. Barrackpore is at this day best known to the natives by the name of Chanock.”—The Bengal Obituary, Calc. p. 2.