Horton, Blyth Explained

Official Name:	Horton
Country:	England
Region:	North East England
Civil Parish:	Blyth
Unitary England:	Northumberland
Lieutenancy England:	Northumberland
Constituency Westminster:	Blyth Valley
Post Town:	BLYTH
Postcode Area:	NE
Postcode District:	NE24
Os Grid Reference:	NZ285815
Coordinates:	55.107°N -1.568°W
Label Position:	top
Static Image:	Horton_Parish_Church,_Northumberland_-_geograph.org.uk_-_115628.jpg
Static Image Caption:	Horton parish church

Horton is a former civil parish, now in the parish of Blyth, in Northumberland, England, about 2miles west of Blyth, and south of the River Blyth. Historically a chapelry of Woodhorn,^[1] it became part of Blyth Urban District in 1912, and on 1 April 1920 it was abolished, when it was combined with Bebside, Cowpen, and Newsham and South Blyth to form a single parish for the district.^[2] In 1911 the parish had a population of 2546.^[3]

The place-name Horton is a common one in England. It derives from Old English horu ("dirt") and tūn ("settlement, farm, estate"), presumably meaning "farm on muddy soil".^[4]

Religious sites

The church is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin.^[5]

Notes and References

Web site: Horton. GENUKI. 26 January 2022.
Web site: GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Horton Ch/CP through time. A Vision of Britain through Time. 20 January 2020.
Web site: Population statistics Horton Ch/CP through time. A Vision of Britain through Time. 26 January 2022.
Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. HORTON.
Book: Purves , Geoffrey . Geoffrey Purves
. Geoffrey Purves . Churches of Newcastle and Northumberland . Tempus Publishing Limited . 2006 . Stroud, Gloucestershire, England . 80 . 0-7524-4071-3 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160113050749/http://tempus-publishing.com/ . 2016-01-13.