DINSDALE (LOW), a parish in the south-western division of STOCKTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM, 6 miles (S. E. byE.) from Darlington, containing 111 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £4. 1]. 5., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. The church is dedicated to St. John. There is a trifling endowment for a school, left by Thomas Wivill, in 1675. A sulphureous well was discovered in 1789, at the depth of seventytwo feet from the surface; it has received the name of Dinsdale Spa, and has become a place of great resort since the recent erection of a commodious inn by Lord Durham, and an extensive suite of hot and cold baths, for the greater comfort of invalids: the water is serviceable in chronic and cutaneous cases: neatly surrounding the spa are beautiful plantations and walks. About two miles up the river Tees are the remains of an old bath, the water of which is of a saline quality; and below the village is a productive salmon-fishery, belonging to Lord Durham, Francis Place, the celebrated painter, was born here; he discovered a species of earth for making porcelain, and manufactured some at York, where he died in 1728.