St John's Church, Dipton
Introduction
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St John's Church, Dipton
Image: © Andrew Curtis Taken: 7 Jan 2011
A hundred years ago 'Dipton' was the name given only to the part of the village lying in the little dene below the Bute Arms pub. The middle of the village, around the Red Lion, was called Collierley Dykes, and the part of the village to the west of St John's Church was called Pontop. Villagers turned out en masse to St John the Evangelist at Dipton, near Stanley, County Durham, to mourn Sapper Daryn Roy, 28, killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in May 2010 Image
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Image Location
Latitude
54.875589
Longitude
-1.765741