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Brunton is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Newton-by-the-Sea, in the county of Northumberland, England. It is about Шаблон:Convert north of Alnwick, a short distance inland from the North Sea coast. In 1951 the parish had a population of 35.[1]

The village is situated in open flat terrain and gives its name to a former WWII airfield RAF Brunton the concreted runways of which lie immediately north of the village. RAF Brunton was operational as a satellite training airfield for RAF Milfield from the summer of 1942 until early 1946.[2]


Governance

Brunton is in the Northumberland County Council division of Longhoughton, and the parliamentary constituency of Berwick-upon-Tweed. In 1866 Brunton became a civil parish in its own right until it was abolished on 1 April 1955 and merged with Newton by the Sea.[3]

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