Sockburn, Durham

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 6 1/2 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.