Description
Murton, East, a township in Dalton-le-Dale parish, Durham, with a station, called Murton, on the Hartlepool and Sunderland railway, 8 miles ENE of Durham. There is a post, money order, and telegraph office, of the name of Murton Colliery, under Snnderland. Acreage, 1495; population, 5052. Coal is largely worked and coked. The parish church of Holy Trinity, erected in 1877, is in this township. It consists of chancel, nave, transepts, S porch, and a small bell-turret, with spire. There are Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, and Bible Christian chapels, a miners' hall, a literary institute, colliery schools, and a police station.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
