My family come from the Neasham/Low Dinsdale area, and when visiting my grandmother and aunts our usual walk was to go down Sockburn Road from Neasham. We didn't walk right to the end but turned off at High Sockburn to go down to Girsby Bridge and then back round to Low Dinsdale. The only buildings at Sockburn proper, I think, are the Hall and farm. We did once get permission to drive down to the Hall to see the chapel. It was a fascinating place with the hogback tombstones and the Conyers effigy, but at the time it was all rather neglected. The owners of the Hall were more interested in dogs than in history. However, I did see something in a Durham Archaeology magazine about a dig there. so that might be possible to track down. There might be some photographs. Anyway, it's more a collection of farms, with associated cottages, than a village.
