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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described East Murton like this:
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.
East Murton is now part of COUNTY DURHAM Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how COUNTY DURHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about East Murton itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of East Murton in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/2410
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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