Deep Dene Traditional Cache
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Various places to park in Dipton. For a shorter, more interesting walk, park uphill from the village at N54 52.116 W001 45.894 and follow the public bridleway sign up the road. There is a bonus virtual cache at N54 52.203 W001 46.091. Check out GC45CC and surf a bit (YSM053). Remember to post a photo.
The Village of Dipton lies about 12 miles south west of Newcastle, between the mining and steel making towns of Stanley and Consett. In 1883 the Parish of Dipton was formed, consisting of the hamlets of Dipton, Collierley Dykes and Pontop.
'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 Johns Church was called Pontop.
The township of Pontop from High Stables to the Church was originally a strip of wasteland, which the Bishop of Durham rented out. The first recorded tenant was Lawrence of Ponthope. In 1246 he was paying a rent of 2 shillings. In 1603 it was sold to Anthony Meaburn of Lanchester who owned it until 1732. The Meaburns lived on their land and built the fine house known as Pontop Hall. The Bishop of Durham's records show that in 1339 the tenants of Collierley rented a wood called the 'Smethystrother' and a pasture called 'Depeden', held by a sixpence per year rent. This is the first reference to the place name which was to become Dipton. It is probable that the sixpenny pasture which gave its name to Dipton lay somewhere near the deep dene near the present sewerage works.
It was about 1333 that the first coal mine was recorded at Collierley and from that year until 1980 coal was the main reason for Dipton 's existence; it being transported by wagon way to the staiths on the Tyne at Derwenthaugh and Dunston.
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