Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONTON

LONTON, a hamlet in Holwick township, RomaldKirk parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Tees, at the boundary with Durham, 8½ miles NW of Barnard-Castle. A handsome bridge here spans the Tees.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Romaldkirk CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Lonton

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