Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Sockety 1811 OS 1828 Hutch3

• Sockety Mead 1838 TA

Etymology

, Sockety 1811 OS, 1828 Hutch3, Sockety Mead 1838TA , cf. another occurrence of this curious name , as Socketty Hock , in Abbotsbury par . supra ; origin uncertain , but possibly a formation based on dial . sock ' moisture collecting in, or percolating through, soil ' ( from OE  soc ' sucking, drainage ' ) with noun suffix -et and adj . suffix - y and with a meaning ' boggy, marshy ' or the like , cf. the recorded dial . socky ' wet, moist ' and the word soaky used by Barnes 103 , 123 to render ' soggy ' and ' zoggy ' . Sockety lies between two low hills and a small stream rises here ; Socketty Hock in Abbotsbury is low - lying and has a stream running through it ( Hock is also unexplained but is perhaps simply reduplicative ) .