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MURTON, a township and a chapelry in Appleby, St. Michael parish, Westmoreland. The township lieson an affluent of the river Eden, 3 miles E N E of Appleby r. station. Acres, 5, 766. Real property, with Hilton, £2,028; of which £193 are in mines, and £14 in quarries. Pop. of M. alone, 218. Houses, 38. Murton Hall was formerly the seat of the Hiltons, and is now a farm-house. Much of the land is moor and mountain; and parts in the E rise into Murton Pike and Murton Fell. Lead mines are worked by the London Lead company. The chapelry is more extensive than the township. Pop., 471. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £99. Patron, the Bishop of Carlisle. The church was built in 1855. There are chapels for Wesleyans and United Free Methodists, and an endowed school with £7 a year.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a township and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Westmorland AncC |
| Place: | Murton |
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