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Sockburn

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Victoria County History

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A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3

Author

William Page (editor)

Year published

1928

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343

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'Parishes: Sockburn', A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3 (1928), pp. 343. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42638 Date accessed: 23 May 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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SOCKBURN

SOCKBURN

Soccabyrig, Sochasburgh (viii cent.); Socceburg (xii cent.); Socceburn (xiii cent.).

The parish of Sockburn includes the three townships of Sockburn, Girsby and Over Dinsdale, which cover altogether 2,757 acres. Of these the first is entirely in the county of Durham, the other two are in the wapentake of Allerton in the county of York.

For an account of the whole parish see The Victoria History of the County of York, North Riding, vol. i, pp. 449 to 454.