A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
MORTON (EAST), or EAST MURTON, 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.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Dalton le Dale AP/CP County Durham AncC |
| Place names: | EAST MORTON | EAST MURTON | MORTON | MORTON EAST | MORTON EAST OR EAST MURTON |
| Place: | East Murton |
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