Staindrop Village Flyover

This is the beautiful village of Staindrop in County Durham. St Mary's church is Anglo-Saxon which was built in the 10th or 11th century. The church contains monuments including effigies of members of the Neville family. Raby Castle and its gardens are to the north of Staindrop. The village has a Spar shop, a post office, Simon's Butchers and a great and very friendly car service centre (Louis Smith Motors), a recently renovated community hall (Scarth Hall), a newly developed children's playground, and the best drinking establishment for miles around, the Wheatsheaf Inn (or commonly referred to as the "Top House"). About 3 miles north-west of the village is Raby Old Lodge, a medieval tower house built for the Neville family of Raby Castle. It was restored in the 19th century and now used as holiday accommodation. The surveyor Jeremiah Dixon, who with Charles Mason calculated and laid out the Mason–Dixon line in North America, is buried in Staindrop. His unmarked grave is in the Quaker burial ground adjoining the old Friends' Meeting House. Thomas Pynchon's historical fiction novel Mason & Dixon mentions Staindrop as containing Jeremiah Dixon's favourite public house.