Little Stainton

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Little Stainton is a village in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated a few miles to the west of Stockton-on-Tees. 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. Until around 1960, it 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, 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 substancial 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.

Rumours say that the last witch to be sentenced to be hanged in England was in Little Stainton.