WITTON (NETHER), a parish in the western division
of MORPETH ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND,
comprising the townships of Coat-Yards, or Coal-yards,
Ewesley, Healy with Comb-Hill, Nether Witton, Nunnikirk,
Ritton-Coltpark, and Ritton-Whitehouse, and
containing 460 inhabitants, of which number, 277 are
in the township of Nether Witton, 7 miles (W. N. W.)
from Morpeth. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of Hartburn, in the archdeaconry
of Northumberland, and diocese of Durham.
The church is dedicated to St. Giles.