STANTON, a township in the parish of LONGHORSLEY,
western division of MORPETH ward, county of
NORTHUMBERLAND, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Morpeth,
containing 168 inhabitants. Here are a colliery,
several quarries of limestone, and kilns for burning lime.
The ancient manor-house has been converted into a
poor-house; a chapel which stood a little to the northward
of it has quite disappeared. From the foundations
in the neighbourhood, Stanton seems to have been once
a considerable place.