Description
Branton, a township in Eglingham parish, Northumberland, on the river Breamish, 9 1/2 miles SSE of Wooler, and 11 mile from Hedgeley station on the N.E.R. Alnwick is the post town. Acreage, 1175; population, 77. There is a Presbyterian chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
