Sockburn: the worm that became the Jabberwock (and the sword is REAL, it's in Durham)

Northumbrian worm, this one's underrated. Sockburn, on a loop of the Tees in County Durham. Ferocious wyvern laying the village waste, the dating tradition says 1063 though the Conyers family probably didn't actually land here till after 1066 so the maths is dodgy, whatever. Sir John Conyers kills i……