Description
Whitton, a township in Rothbury parish, Northumberland, half a mile S of Rothbury station on the North British railway. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Rothbury. Acreage, 696; population, 64. Whitton Tower was built in the 15th century by one of the Umfravilles, has walls 7 feet thick, corner-turrets, and a dungeon, and is now Rothbury rectory house.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
