Brunton is a village and former

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, now in the parish of

Newton-by-the-Sea Newton-by-the-Sea is a civil parish in the county of Northumberland, England. The parish is about 8 miles northwest of Alnwick, and lies on the coast between the larger settlements of Embleton and Seahouses. Newton-by-the-Sea is in the parlia ...

, in the county of

Northumberland Northumberland ( ) is a ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England, on the Anglo-Scottish border, border with Scotland. It is bordered by the North Sea to the east, Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south, Cumb ...

, England. It is about north of

Alnwick Alnwick ( ) is a market town in Northumberland, England, of which it is the traditional county town. The population at the 2011 Census was 8,116. The town is south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish border, inland from the North Sea ...

, a short distance inland from the

North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. A sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian Se ...

. In 1951 the parish had a population of 35.

History

The village is in open flat terrain and gave its name to RAF Brunton, an airfield built during World War II, whose abandoned concrete runways lie immediately north of the village. RAF Brunton was operational as a satellite training airfield for

RAF Milfield Royal Air Force Milfield or more simply RAF Milfield is a former Royal Air Force station which operated during the Second World War, located near Milfield, Northumberland, England. History The airfield opened on 26 January 1942, hosting No. 59 ...

from the summer of 1942 until early 1946 and existed as a civil aviation field till 2003.

Governance

Brunton is in the Northumberland County Council division of Longhoughton, and the parliamentary constituency of

Berwick-upon-Tweed Berwick-upon-Tweed (), sometimes known as Berwick-on-Tweed or simply Berwick, is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, and the northernmost town in England. The 2011 United Kingdom census recor ...

. In 1866 Brunton became a civil parish in its own right; it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Newton by the Sea.

Landmarks

The village has a country house and a mill with ancillary buildings. All are now holiday lets.

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Villages in Northumberland Former civil parishes in Northumberland {{Northumberland-geo-stub