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Some maps show this property is named Dye House although it also seems to be applied to the hamlet as a whole. The name clearly refers to the cloth industry that was originally based here but the non-conformist chapel features most in its history. Alexander Angus settled here in 1584 and his house became central to the first Baptist sect established in Northumberland & Durham.

Originally meetings were held in members' houses around the area, but at York there is a record of a petition dated 25th April 1749 for licensing and registration of a dwelling house, called Juniper Dye House, as a place of worship for Anabaptists. The house was then in the ownership of Mr William Angus, and the brothers Christopher and Robert Hall (born at Black Heddon near Stamfordham) were prominent preachers.