GLANTON, a township in the parish of WHITTINGHAM,
northern division of CoatiETDALE ward, county
of NORTHUMBERLAND, 9 miles (W.) from Alnwick,
containing 474 inhabitants. There is a place of worship
for Presbyterians; and the township has recently
been much improved by the erection of several handsome
houses. On a lofty eminence called Glanton Pike
was formerly a beacon. Several stone coffins, and urns
containing pieces of charcoal and burnt bones, were discovered
about 17l6 also weapons which evidently belonged
to the Britons. There is a petrifying well, at
the bottom of which shell marl is found.