A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
SADBERGE, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Haughton-le-Skerne parish, Durham. The village stands1½ mile N of Middleton and Dinsdale r. station, and 3¾ E N E of Darlington; 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; hadsheriffs, coroners, other officers, and a jail of its own, for the government of the wapentake; retained the office ofjailor, as a sinecure office, till so late as 1862; gave the title of Earl to the Prince-Bishops of Durham; and is now an insignificant place, with no vestige of its formerconsequence. The township comprises 2,050 acres. Real property, £4, 474. Pop., 355. Houses, 81. The property is not much divided. The chapelry includes also Morton-Palms township, and was constituted in 1856. Post-town, Darlington. Pop., 414. Houses, 90. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Durham. Value, £330. Patron, the Bishop of Manchester. The church is good; and there are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £9.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a township, and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Haughton le Skerne Tn/CP/AP Sadberge CP/Tn County Durham AncC |
| Place: | Sadberge |
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