Low Dinsdale, Durham

Description
Dinsdale, Low, a small village and a parish in Durham, on the river Tees, with a station on a branch of the N.E.R., 5 miles SE of Darlington. Post town, Middleton-One-Row, under Darlington; money order office, Fighting Cocks. Acreage, 1177 ; population, 221. The manor belonged once to the Surtees family, and was the birthplace of Place the artist. There is a sulphur spa of much repute in skin. diseases here, and good baths and a magnificent hotel are in its neighbourhood. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham; gross value, £210. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church is an ancient one, erected in 1196 on the site of a Saxon church, in the Early English style, and was restored in 1876, when the remains of a fine churchyard cross of Saxon origin were discovered.