MURTON, otherwise MOOR-TOWN, a township in
the parish of TYNEMOUTH, eastern division of CASTLE
ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 2 miles (N. W.)
from North Shields, containing 556 inhabitants, who are
chiefly employed in the coal mines with which the district
abounds. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan
Methodists. Freestone is obtained here, and in
raising it, a stone coffin, containing a perfect skeleton,
was found in one of the quarries, in 1790.