Chirton, Northumberland

Description
Chirton, a village and a township in Tynemouth parish, Northumberland, on the river Tyne and the North Shields railway, 1 mile W of North Shields station on the N.E.R., with a post office under North Shields ; money order and telegraph office, North Shields. With the small township of Murton, the village of Percy Main, and the hamlet of New York, it was formed in 1861 into the ecclesiastical parish of Percy St John. The area of the township is 2432 acres; population, 13,066. There were extensive collieries here, but they have been worked out. The Duke of Northumberland, K.G., is lord of the manor and principal landowner. The parish church is at Percy Main. There is a Wesleyan chapel at New York, and a Free Methodist one at Murton.