Sockburn is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Neasham, in the Darlington district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It is situated at the apex of a meander of the River Tees, to the south of Darlington, known locally as the Sockburn Peninsula.
Today, all that remains of the village is an early nineteenth-century mansion, a ruined church and a farmhouse built in the late eighteenth century.
Sockburn is best known for:
Important links with Lindisfarne and Celtic Christianity
The discovery of Viking Age hogbacks.
The Sockburn Worm , a ferocious wyvern that in folklore laid waste to the village.
Sockburn Hall, a 19th-century country house and a Grade II listed building.
Distance between:
London to Sockburn212 Miles / 342 Kms Liverpool to Sockburn96 Miles / 155 Kms
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