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{{Short description|Village in County Durham, England}} |
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[[File:St Andrew's Church Dalton-Le-Dale.jpg|thumb|St Andrew's church, Dalton-le-Dale]] |
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| ⚫ | '''Dalton-le-Dale''' is a village in [[County Durham]], in [[England]]. The parish population taken at the [[United Kingdom Census 2011|2011 census]] was 1,546.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11122606&c=SR7+8PX&d=16&e=62&g=6419750&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1436801533430&enc=1|title=Parish population 2011|access-date=13 July 2015}}</ref> It is situated on the old [[A19 road]] between [[Seaham]] and [[Murton, County Durham|Murton]].<ref>[http://dalton-le-dale.com dalton-le-dale.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Most of the village is located in a wooded valley bottom, straddling a single road which follows the stream that runs through what is left of [[Cold Hesledon]] [[Dene (valley)|Dene]]. Where the road rises to meet the original path of the old [[A19 road|A19]], there is a small but very fine medieval church hidden from the old A19 in a dip. In the opposite direction where the village road to [[Seaham]] crosses the stream is [[Dalden Tower]], a pele-tower, the most prominent part of the remains of what was a large medieval manor house complex. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and the tower is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England. |
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== History == |
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* [http://dalton-le-dalehistorysociety.org/ Dalton-le-Dale History Society] |
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The ancient parish of [[St. Andrew]] included the four constabularies or townships of Dalton-le-Dale, Morton-in-the-Whins, [[Cold Hesledon]], Dalden (or Dawdon) and outlying farms. The largest of these and the parish seat was Dalton-le-Dale, described in c. AD700 by the [[Venerable Bede]] as a cluster of 'ten households round the [[Guildhall]] of Witmar, [[Saxon]] [[thegn]] and [[Soldier of Christ]]'. In 1155 the boundaries between the possessions of the Church of Dalden and those of the Lords of Dalden were decided by arbitration. |
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In 1337 Robert de Herrington, vicar of Dalton, complained to his superiors in [[Durham]] that his parish had again been wasted and depopulated by the [[Scotland|Scots]] who had taken advantage of the [[England|English]] war with [[France]]. Previously 15 husbandmen and 15 cottagers paid [[tithe]]s and now there were only five husbandmen and six cottagers - all in a state of near beggary and unable to pay him anything. He was then granted 40 [[Shillings]] annually for life. |
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The estate and Dalton Tower belonged to the de Daldens, who lived at [[Dalton Tower]] and laterly Dalton Hall, before having moved to [[Seaham Hall]]. The estates past through a number of different hands. |
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The [[Collingwood]]s sold out the twin estates of Seaham and Dalden to the Milbankes in c. 1676/78 and they in turn sold out to the [[Marquis of Londonderry]] in 1821. By then Dalden Hall had been converted to a farmhouse and the Tower had long been in ruins. |
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By 1911 the population of Dalton-le-Dale had risen to 472. It has remained more or less stable ever since. There is little left of the old village. Most of the older housing was swept away in the 1950s and 60s. One of the most distinguished Dalton-le-Dale residents was the late Tom MacNee, co-author (with David Angus) of 'Seaham - the First 100 Years' and 'The Changing Face of Seaham'. See those two books for more information about the village. |
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== Parish Church of St. Andrew == |
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The present church has been tentatively dated at c.1150, but this was in the turbulent reign of [[King Stephen of England|King Stephen]], 84 years after the [[Norman Conquest|Conquest]], when a civil war over the throne was in progress and the [[Scots]] had taken the opportunity of English disunity to seize most of the north of England, including County Durham. An earlier or later date, when normality prevailed, seems more likely. The doorway is definitely [[Norman]] in style. The church contains a unique internal [[sundial]] and also the ancestral tombs of some of the Lords of Dalden. ''See'' [[Dalton Tower]] |
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From its origin in c. AD1150 to c. 1575 [[St. Andrew]]'s was a [[Catholic]] church in a completely Catholic country, a Catholic known world. At some point in the reign of [[Elizabeth I]](1558-1603) it became [[Anglican]]. The parish records survive from a century later by which time both England and Scotland were united under one King and Catholics were a small, feared, despised and persecuted minority. |
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The town and port of [[Seaham Harbour]] was founded at Dawdon in 1828 and a new parish was created out of old St. Andrew's in 1845 to cater for the great increase in population. Seaham Harbour's records for the period 1828-45 therefore are included in the registers of St. Andrews. [[Murton]] Colliery, originally called Dalton New Winning, was sunk between 1838 and 1843 but the new community which evolved did not receive its own Anglican church chapel until 1875. Murton's records before that year are included in the St. Andrew's registers. Since 1875 St. Andrew's has been the parish church for only the two small communities of Dalton-le-Dale and Cold Hesledon. Today 'events' (baptisms, banns, marriages and burials) at St. Andrew's are exceedingly rare and it has the status of a chapel-of-ease (i.e., a part-time church) for its 'parent' church at Murton. The vicar of Murton is also the vicar of Dalton-le-Dale. |
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One entry in the baptismal registers in April 1857 is worthy of particular notice. A Margaret Jane Mowbray was christened whose parents were given as William and Mary Ann of Murton. The mother is better known to history as [[Mary Ann Cotton]] (her fourth and bigamous husband was Frederick Cotton), Great Britain's alleged most prolific murderer, who is credited by some authorities with some 21 killings, one of whom was the child Margaret Jane Mowbray. Mary Ann Cotton was executed at [[Durham]] [[Gaol]] in March 1873 for one murder she definitely did do - that of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton at [[West Auckland]]. |
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== Dalton Tower == |
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''see'' [[Dalton Tower]] |
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Latest revision as of 10:50, 4 November 2024
Dalton-le-Dale is a village in County Durham, in England. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 1,546.[1] It is situated on the old A19 road between Seaham and Murton.[2] Most of the village is located in a wooded valley bottom, straddling a single road which follows the stream that runs through what is left of Cold Hesledon Dene. Where the road rises to meet the original path of the old A19, there is a small but very fine medieval church hidden from the old A19 in a dip. In the opposite direction where the village road to Seaham crosses the stream is Dalden Tower, a pele-tower, the most prominent part of the remains of what was a large medieval manor house complex. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and the tower is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England.
References
[edit]- ^ "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ^ dalton-le-dale.com
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