Pockerley Manor Cellar, Beamish Open Air Museum

Pockerley Manor Cellar at Beamish Open Air Museum. The house was here long before the museum opened. It is part-medieval stone house and replaced an earlier fortified manor house of Norman origin that stood here. Pockerley has an intriguing Old English name that derives from the Anglo-Saxon ‘Pocca’, its name means ‘clearing of the hobgoblin’.