THORNTON (WEST), a township in that part of
the parish of HARTBURN which is in the western division
of MORPETH ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
7 miles (W. by N.) from Morpeth, containing 43 inhabitants.
This is the supposed site of a Roman camp,
and it is recorded that, at the commencement of the
eighteenth century, vestiges of a town, intersected by
a military way, were discernible.