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Front Street, Dipton
The very busy A692.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 27 Jan 2022
0.05 miles
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The track of Catchwell Road, Dipton
The track is on the line of the old Pontop Pike waggonway. The waggonways were laid out in this area as early as 1728. Horses were used to pull chaldron waggons along wooden rails of a usual gauge of 4 feet, transporting coal from the many pits around Pontop Pike towards staithes on the nearby rivers. A chaldron is a unit of dry measure which was 36 bushels for coal. The waggonways consisted of two tracks laid side by side, the main way and the bye way. The main way carried the full wagon down gradient, and then on the bye way, the horse pulled the empty wagon up gradient.
There is a detailed essay here http://www.pontvalley.net/cms/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=26
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.08 miles
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Former Red Lion pub
A striking Edwardian structure at the junction of Cooperative Terrace with Front Street.
Image: © Oliver Dixon
Taken: 27 Jan 2022
0.09 miles
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Former Red Lion pub, Dipton
On the corner of Front Street and Co-operative Terrace, the disused pub was for a time a shrine to Sapper Daryn Roy killed in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on May 3rd 2010. A sign in the boarded up windows reads, "Daryn Roy. Dipton hero"
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/evening-chronicle-news/2010/05/19/dipton-pay-tribute-to-tragic-soldier-daryn-roy-72703-26475933/
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.09 miles
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Co-operative Terrace, Dipton
Showing the Post Office and Club on the south side of the street, opposite the shops.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.09 miles
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Houses, Catchwell Road, Dipton
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.10 miles
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Front Street, Dipton from junction with Co-operative Terrace
London House is on the corner, opposite the former Red Lion pub.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.10 miles
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Delight Cottage, Delight Bank, Dipton
The cottage is at the foot of Delight bank, a road heading towards Pontop Pike.
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.11 miles
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Delight Row & Wordsworth Gardens, Dipton
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.12 miles
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Path west of Delight Bank, Dipton
Image: © Andrew Curtis
Taken: 7 Jan 2011
0.12 miles