Derbyshire without High Peak, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and the Soke of Peterborough. Cambridgeshire had the Isle of Ely, and Northamptonshire had the Soke of Peterborough. Symonds was born in the Soke of Peterborough. The diocese covers the counties of Northamptonshire (including the Soke of Peterborough) and Rutland. A sokeman was a free man within the lord's "soke", or jurisdiction. It was part of the soke of Rothley from the tenth century. Other scholars have viewed the judicial powers represented by the Anglo-Saxon Soke as rather limited. As part of the Soke of Peterborough, it was formerly part of Northamptonshire. This section of road is called the "Soke Parkway" (named after the Soke of Peterborough). Within the parish of Wothorpe is the highest point of the historic Soke of Peterborough.