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Little Stainton Village

Little Stainton is a village in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of County Durham. It is situated a few miles to the west of Stockton-on-Tees. The village is made up of a couple of dozen residential buildings and a population of not more than 100 people. It is, in fact, a hamlet rather than a village, consisting of houses and farms that have no local service facilities except for a public telephone kiosk.

Village Development

Until around 1960, Little Stainton consisted of a group of individual farms, to which was added a set of four council houses with agricultural dwelling restrictions.

In the late 1980s there was a significant change in the nature of the hamlet of Little Stainton, with planning permission being granted for a series of private dwellings that have transformed Little Stainton into a rural agglomeration of dwellings, within which the farms now constitute a minority.

Although large pieces, if not all the land surrounding the dwellings is owned primarily by the farms, many private dwellings also own a substantial amount of land, ranging from 2 acres to about 5 acres. A stream runs down the bottom of all of the gardens on one side of the street.

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