Over Dinsdale Explained

Country:England
Static Image Name:The Granary at Over Dinsdale, Yorkshire - geograph-2231794.jpg
Static Image Caption:The Granary in Over Dinsdale
Coordinates:54.499°N -1.462°W
Official Name:Over Dinsdale
Unitary England:North Yorkshire
Lieutenancy England:North Yorkshire
Region:Yorkshire and the Humber
Constituency Westminster:Richmond (Yorks)
Post Town:Darlington
Postcode District:DL2
Postcode Area:DL
Os Grid Reference:NZ349116

Over Dinsdale is a small village and civil parish in the former Local Government District of Hambleton in North Yorkshire, England. The population of the village (including Girsby) taken at the 2011 census was 151. The village straddles an ancient Roman road on the border with County Durham, on a peninsula in the River Tees, approximately from Darlington and from Yarm. The Teesdale Way passes through the village.

Historically the village was a township in the ancient parish of Sockburn, a parish divided by the River Tees between the North Riding of Yorkshire (which included Over Dinsdale) and County Durham (which included the township of Sockburn).[1] Over Dinsdale became a separate civil parish in 1866.[2]

The neighbouring village of Low Dinsdale is across the river in County Durham.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/NRY/Sockburn/Sockburn68.html The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
  2. http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10417284 Vision of Britain website