Low Dinsdale

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox UK place

| official_name= Low Dinsdale

| civil_parish = Neasham

| country= England

| region= North East England

|coordinates = {{Coord|54.494|-1.466|display=title|region:GB_scale:5000}}

| os_grid_reference=

| post_town= DARLINGTON

| postcode_area= DL

| postcode_district= DL2

| dial_code= 01325

| constituency_westminster = Sedgefield

| unitary_england= Darlington

| lieutenancy_england= County Durham

| hide_services= Yes

| population =871

| population_ref = (2011 census)

| area_total_km2=

|static_image=St. John the Baptist Church - Dinsdale.JPG

|static_image_caption=Church of St John the Baptist in Low Dinsdale

|website=

}}

Low Dinsdale is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Neasham, in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It is situated a few miles to the south-east of Darlington. On 1 April 2016 the parish was abolished and merged with Neasham and Middleton St. George.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/darlington.html|title=Darlington Registration District|publisher=UKBMD|accessdate=7 August 2023}}

Historically the village was commonly known as Dinsdale.[http://joinermarriageindex.co.uk/pjoiner/genuki/DUR/Dinsdale/index.html History, Topography and Directory of Durham, Whellan (1894) on Genuki] "Low" was added to distinguish the village from the neighbouring village of Over Dinsdale, on the opposite bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire. The toponym was recorded in Domesday Book as Dignesale and Dirneshale, and recorded in 1088 as Detnisale. The name is Old English and means either "nook of land belonging to a man named Dyttin" or "nook of land belonging to Deighton". Deighton was in the same wapentake (Allerton) as Over Dinsdale.{{Citation | contribution = Dinsdale | year = 2010 | title = The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names | editor-last = Watts | editor-first = Victor | publisher = Cambridge University Press }}

Listed buildings include Low Dinsdale Manor and Dinsdale Park a former Spa hotel.