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High Dyke, County Durham

Coordinates: 54°37′55″N 2°04′45″W / 54.632°N 2.0793°W / 54.632; -2.0793
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High Dyke
High Dyke is located in County Durham
High Dyke
High Dyke
Location within County Durham
OS grid referenceNY949262
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDarlington
Postcode districtDL12
PoliceDurham
FireCounty Durham and Darlington
AmbulanceNorth East
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UK
England
County Durham
54°37′55″N 2°04′45″W / 54.632°N 2.0793°W / 54.632; -2.0793

High Dyke is a hamlet[1] in County Durham, in England. It is a short distance to the north of Middleton-in-Teesdale and within the civil parish of the same name.[2] It is named High Dike on an Ordnance Survey map published in 1920 and lies on and around the 1,000 feet (300 m) contour line.[3] Silver-lead ore was mined here in the 19th-century by the London Lead Company;[4] several old shafts are marked on the map.


References

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  1. ^ "Ordnance Survey Open Data Names Download (NY82)". Ordnance Survey Data Hub. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  3. ^ "View map: Ordnance Survey, Yorkshire II.SE & IIA.SW (includes: Eggleston; Holwick; Middleton in Teesdale.) - Ordnance Survey Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  4. ^ Hunt, Robert (1877). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology: Mining records. Mineral statistics of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ... Longmans, Green & Co. p. 161.