Lanton, Northumberland
Historical Description
Lanton, a township in Kirk Newton parish, Northumberland, on the river Glen, 4½ miles NW of Wooler and 1 mile from Kirk Newton station. The post town is Alnwick; money order and telegraph office, Wooler. Acreage, 974; population, 77. A monument to the Davidsons is on the Lanton Hill.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Northumberland | |
| Civil parish | Kirk Newton | |
| Poor Law union | Glendale | |
| Ward | Glendale |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Lanton from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Northumberland is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Lanton are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers related to Northumberland online: