Dalton Piercy
Major Settlement in the Parish of Hart
Historical Forms
- Daltun c.1150 Guis
- Daltone 1235(p),1236(p),1242×3 Ass
- Dalton 1242×3 1548,1566 Ct
- Dalton' 1306 RPD 14th Ct
- dalton' 1407 Ct
- Dawton 1637 Camden
- Dalton' super Tese 1312 RPD
- Dalton Percy 1370 AD 1381×2etfreqto1564 IPM
- Dalton Pearcy 1644 SurteesIII98
- Dalton Peircy, Dalton Piercy 1729 Hud 1732 NRCbox7
- Dalton next Ellewyk 1440×1 IMP
Etymology
'Valley settlement', OE dæl + tūn. The village lies beside the small valley of a stream draining south into Greatham Creek. The estate, originally a Bruce manor, passed to William de Percy by marriage in the early 13th cent., VCH III 255.
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- The Laurels
- Pudding St
- Todds Court
- Fox Hill
- Glebe Farm
- Hart Moor Ho
- Hart Windmill
- Manor Farm
- Middlethorpe
- St Mary Magdalen's Fm
- Short Cake Hill
- High Springwell
- Thorpe Bulmer Dene
- Whelly Hill, Whelly Hill Ho
- Bogle Beck
- Dalton Beck, Dalton Field Ho, Dalton Nook Plantation
- Dalton Piercy Crag
- Dixon's Plantation
- The Green
- The Grove
- Hart on Hill
- Horse Close Plantation
- Three Gates
- Raby St
- William St
- Red Lion Inn
- Cemetery junction N, Cemetery junction S, Cemetery junction W
- Coast Rd
- Hart Rd, Hart Station, Hart Warren
- Middleton
- Middle Warren
- North Sands
- Old Harbour
- Old Pier
- Parton Rocks
- Redheugh Gdns
- The Slake
- Springwell Ho
- George St
- Hardwicke St
- Henrietta St
- Henry St
- Holy Trinity Church
- John St
- Millbank Crescent
- Sussex St
- The Howls
- Woodside
- Cemetery Battery
- South Terrace
- Belly Well