Caldwell is a village and civil parish in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with County Durham and approximately 10 miles west of Darlington.

[2] Caldwell was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1096 as being in the hundred of "Land of Count Alan" and the county of Yorkshire, although no population was recorded.

Cawdewel is so caullid of a little font, or spring, by the ruines of the olde place , and so rennith into a bekke half a quarter of a mile of.

[5] In 1870–72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Caldwell as:"a township in St. John-Stanwick parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on an affluent of the river Tees, 8 miles N of Richmond.

[7] The chapel of St. Hilda, built in 1844, was funded by Charlotte Catherine Anne, Countess of Bridgewater, and was formerly part of the Stanwick St John parish.