Sadberge, Durham

Description
Sadberge, a village, a township, and an ecclesiastical parish in Haughton-le-Skeme parish, Durham. The village stands 1 1/2 mile N of Dinsdale railway station, and 3 1/2 miles ENE of Darlington, and has a post and money order office under Darlington; telegraph office, Fighting Cocks. The manor was purchased by Bishop Pudsey from Richard I. for £11,000, was then a large place and the capital of an important wapentake or hundred, had sheriffs, coroners, other officers, and a jail of its own for the government of the wapentake, retained the office of jailor as a sinecure office till so late as 1862, gave the title of Earl to the Prince-Bishops of Durham, and is now a small place with no vestige of its former consequence. The Roman camp can still be traced. The township comprises 2087 acres; population, 337. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor. The ecclesiastical parish includes also Morton Palms township, and was constituted in 1856. Population, 438. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham; net value, £150 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is a plain building in the Norman style, consists of chancel, nave, W porch, and bell-turret, and contains three memorial windows and a hexagonal font of Caen stone presented in 1887. It was restored in 1890, the chancel seated in oak, and an oak pulpit was erected. There is a Wesleyan chapel. A reservoir to hold 12,000,000 gallons of water was constructed in 1889.