Obs. exc. Hist. [see SOKEN.] The territory of a church; inhabitants of this district.
a. 1000. Laws Ine, § 5, Thorpe, I. 104 (Bosw.). Be ciric-socn.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 89. Dominica Palmarum, Þat ech chirchsocne goð þis dai a procession.
1875. Stubbs, Const. Hist., I. xi. 407. London appears to have been a collection of … manors, parishes, church-sokens.
