Place:East Murton, Durham, England

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NameEast Murton
Alt namesMorton(East)
TypeVillage
Located inDurham, England     (1927 - 1927)
See alsoMurton, Durham, England
source: Family History Library Catalog

"a township in Dalton-le-Dale parish, Durhamshire; on the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, 8 miles ENE of Durham. Acres, 1,466. Real property, £3,615; of which £600 are in the railway. Pop. in 1851,1,387; in 1861,2,104. Houses, 379. Most of the property belongs to Shipperdson of Piddinghall. Coal is worked and coked. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, and a national school." - 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales East Murton is now part of Easington district. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of East Murton, in Easington and County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

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