Sockburn, Durham
Historical Description
Sockburn, a township in Durham, and a parish partly also in the N.R. Yorkshire. The township lies within a fold of the river Tees, 3 miles ENE of Dalton Junction railway station, and 6½ SE by S of Darlington, and is celebrated in the legendary ballad of " Sockbnrn Worm." Post town, Darlington; money order and telegraph office, Croft. Acreage, 652 of land and 58 of water; population, 44: of the ecclesiastical parish, 225. The parish includes the townships of Girsby and Over Dinsdale. The manor belonged to the Conyers family, and passed to the Blacketts. The living ia a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £223. Patron, Sherburn Hospital. The old church is a ruin. A new church was built about 1845 on a different site.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Ecclesiastical parish | Sockburn All Saints | |
Poor Law union | Darlington | |
Riding | North | |
Wapentake | Allertonshire |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sockburn from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sockburn (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sockburn are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: