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East Morton
East Morton is a small village which lies 1 mile north of Bingley and 3 miles south-east of Keighley, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. The small hamlet of West Morton lies 1 mile to the north west. The village has a population of 1,169 according to the 2011 census.〔http://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-yorkshireandthehumber.php?cityid=E35000919〕
== History ==
The place name Morton historically indicated a ''marsh or moor settlement''.〔http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Morton〕 East and West Morton, together with Riddlesden and a large area of Rombalds Moor, formed the chapelry of Morton in the ancient parish of Bingley in the West Riding of Yorkshire.〔(GENUKI: National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland, 1868 )〕 The chapelry became the parish of Morton by an act of Parliament in 1846, and in 1866 became a civil parish. The civil parish was abolished in 1938 and absorbed into the civil parish and municipal borough of Keighley,〔(Vision of Britain website )〕 itself abolished in 1974 and absorbed into the City of Bradford Metropolitan District in the new county of West Yorkshire. The civil parish of Keighley, including East and West Morton, was reconstituted in 2002 with a town council.
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