Dalton-le-Dale is a village in County Durham, in England. The parish population taken at the 2011 census was 1,546.[1] It is situated on the old A19 road between Seaham and Murton.[2]
Most of the village is located in a wooded valley bottom, straddling a single road which follows the stream that runs through what is left of Cold HesledonDene. Where the road rises to meet the original path of the old A19, there is a small but very fine medieval church hidden from the old A19 in a dip. In the opposite direction where the village road to Seaham crosses the stream is Dalden Tower, a pele-tower, the most prominent part of the remains of what was a large medieval manor house complex. The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and the tower is Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England.
