Dufton Village with Dufton Pike in the Background

Home to 204 people, Dufton on the edge of the North Pennines has a lot to offer.  Nestling at the foot of Dufton Pike where
lead mining once took place, the village is laid out around large green with it's distinctive water trough, the Stag's Head pub,

and a café, the Post Box Pantry.  Meaning "farmstead where doves were kept", Dufton had five fountains and a water course which was provided by the Quaker owned London Lead Co. in the 19th century to ensure that the inhabitants had a clean water supply.  One of the fountains together with it's circular water trough forms the centrepiece on the village green today. The village hall started out as a Conservative & Unionist club in 1911 before becoming a village hall in 1963. There were two pubs in the village, the Black Bull is now Sycamore House, a private residence and the Stag's Head, formally the Buck Inn which continues to serve the community today.  The village lies on the Pennine Way and accommodation is available at a Youth Hostel.     Post Box Pantry

There were once a number of shops in Dufton, a grocer's, baker, general dealer and a bucher's shop that had it's own abbatoir.  The Post Office was the last of the shops to remain open, into the 21st century and is now a café. The local church is St. Cuthbert's and is half a mile (800m) out of the village on the road to Knock.  There is also a Primitive Methodist Chapelin the village still in use and dating from 1905.  There was also a Wesleyan Chapel which is now a private house and another Primitive Chapel which is now derelict. Water trough and fountain on the village green BACK