Talk:River Skerne
 | This article was nominated for deletion on 16 May 2012. The result of the discussion was Snow keep. |
 | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Origin of name
[edit]The River Skerne is said to have been originally called the "Shining River". This may be of British/Celtic origin, however its original name may be more connected to Skirne a messenger of the gods in Angle, Saxon & Scandanavian pagan mythology. There's a town and river of that name, presently on the West coast of Jutland in Denmark.
The River Skerne is joined in central Darlington by the Cocker Beck, which flows through the denes, a mile long string of urban parks that extend to the village of Cockerton and beyond into the West.
Once rural Cockerton was the alleged site of the imaginary Cockerton Docks, a skit from the then bigger & heavily industrialised neighbour Darlington. (a'la Wigan Pier).