Dalton is a village in 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of New Hanover and 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Greytown in the uMshwati Local Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

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Coordinates: 29°20′S 30°38′E
Country	South Africa
Province	KwaZulu-Natal
District	UMgungundlovu
Municipality	uMshwathi
Established	1850
Area [1]
• Total	1.28 km2 (0.49 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	1,493
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	81.4%
• Coloured	0.7%
• Indian/Asian	6.6%
• White	9.6%
• Other	1.7%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Zulu	58.6%
• English	21.3%
• Xhosa	12.8%
• Afrikaans	1.8%
• Other	5.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	3236
Area code	033

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The town is named after North Dalton in Yorkshire, the hometown of Henry Boast, who organized an immigration to Natal in 1850 of people from Yorkshire. It is the railway junction for the Noodsberg line.^[2]

The main local industry is the production of sugarcane, with the Union Cooperative and Illovo Noodsberg mills nearby.