Murton is a small village and civil parish in the Eden District

Eden, Cumbria

Eden is a local government district in Cumbria, England. Its council is based in Penrith. It is named after the River Eden which flows north through the district toward Carlisle....

 of Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It has a population of 330. Settlements within the parish include the villages of Hilton

Hilton, Cumbria

Hilton is a village in Cumbria, England in the civil parish of Coupland, about 2 km east of Appleby-in-Westmorland.Some 4 km to the northeast of Hilton, between Hilton Fell and Murton Fell in Scordale, is the Hilton Mine Initially worked for lead ore in the nineteenth century by the London Lead...

, Langton, and Brackenber

Brackenber

Brackenber is a hamlet in the civil parish of Murton in Cumbria, England. It is near the town of Appleby-in-Westmorland and the village of Hilton, Cumbria....

. The town of Appleby-in-Westmorland

Appleby-in-Westmorland

Appleby-in-Westmorland is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, in North West England. It is situated within a loop of the River Eden and has a population of approximately 2,500. It is in the historic county of Westmorland, of which it was the county town. The town's name was simply Appleby, until...

 is to the south west.

Murton Pike, to the north, is 594 metres (1,948.8 ft) high and a triangulation point, it is a south westerly outlyer of Murton Fell, which rises to over 670 metres (2,198.2 ft) at two points. Parts of Murton Fell lie within the Warcop Army Training area.

External links

• The Pennine Villages of the Eden Valley, and the North Pennines www.visitcumbria.com