DALTON-le-DALE, a parish in the northern division
of EASINGTON ward, county palatine of DURHAM,
comprising the townships of Dalton le Dale, Dawdon,
Cold Hesleton, and East Morton, and containing 211 inhabitants,
of which number, 49 arp in the township of
Dalton le Dale, 6 miles (S.) from Sunderland. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £ 6. 0.7.,
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter
of Durham. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is
principally in the early style of English architecture;
there is a Norman door-way, now closed.