Dalton, west North Yorkshire

This article is about the village near Richmond. For the village near Darlington, see Dalton-on-Tees. For other uses, see Dalton (disambiguation).

Dalton
Looking through Dalton
Dalton Location within North Yorkshire
Population	181 (2011 census) [1]
OS grid reference	NZ114084
District	Richmondshire
Shire county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	RICHMOND
Postcode district	DL11
Dialling code	01833
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
UK Parliament	Richmond
List of places UK England Yorkshire 54°28′16″N1°49′28″W / 54.471018°N 1.824374°W / 54.471018; -1.824374

Dalton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire in England. ^{[2] [3]} Dalton is situated about six miles north-west of Richmond and about five miles south-east of Barnard Castle within the council district of Richmondshire and close to the A66 trans-Pennine trunk road. It was listed in the Domesday book. The Dalton parish boundary includes the village itself as well the houses at Dalton Heights (off the road to Newsham) plus numerous surrounding farms. The population of the parish was 147 according to the 2001 census, ^[4] increasing to 181 at the 2011 Census. ^[1]

The Church of St James, built in 1897, architect W. S. Hicks

Dalton includes a farming community, both arable and stock, and is sited on a stream or beck which is a tributary of the River Swale. The Dalton & Gayles Village Hall, which is shared with the neighbouring village of Gayles, is located in Dalton; there is also a Church of England church, St James's, built in 1897.

The name Dalton comes from Old English and means farmstead or village in a valley. ^[5]

To the South of Dalton there are the remains of a camp called ‘Castle Steads’, and further south there is a block of stone called ‘Stone Man’ which used to be a landmark, until the stones were taken away to make fences. A mile south-east of the Stone Man, a stone chest was found which had a ‘kale pot’, said to have contained money. ^[6]

In 1835, an allowance of £40 was given to the schoolmaster by the Kirby-Ravensworth hospital for the education of the poor children. ^[7] By 1890, there was a mixed school attended by 50 students. ^[8]

References

1. UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Dalton Parish (E04007472)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 16 August 2019.
2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 92 Barnard Castle & Richmond (Teesdale) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2011. ISBN   9780319228982.
3. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
4. UK Census (2001). "Local Area Report – Dalton Parish (36UE031)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 16 August 2019.
5. Mills, A. D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 146. ISBN   9780199609086.
6. Hinson, Colin. "Kirkby Ravensworth: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890". Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890). Retrieved 26 April 2013.
7. Hinson, Colin. "Kirkby Ravensworth". Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1835. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
8. Hinson, Colin. "Kirkby Ravensworth: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890". Bulmer's History. Retrieved 26 April 2013.

External links

• Media related to Dalton, Richmondshire at Wikimedia Commons
• Dalton in the Domesday Book