Sockburn

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.