Dipton, Durham
Historical Description
Dipton, an ecclesiastical district, comprising most of the township of Collierley, formed from the ecclesiastical parish of Collierley in 1884, and in the ancient parish of Lanchester, Durham, 9 miles SW of Gateshead. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Lintz Green (R.S.O.) Population, 3387. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £300, in the gift of the Crown and the Bishop alternately. The church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, and consecrated together with the adjoining burial ground in 1886, is a building in the Early English style. There are several collieries in the neighbourhood.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for County Durham is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Dipton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering county Durham online: