In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sadberge like this:
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.
Sadberge through time
Sadberge is now part of Darlington district. Click here for graphs and data of how Darlington has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sadberge itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sadberge, in Darlington and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5662
Date accessed: 11th May 2024
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