Proper noun
A habitational surname from Old English.
A suburb of South Shields, South Tyneside borough, Tyne and Wear, England (OS grid ref NZ3764).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgThe 1826 experiment was aborted by the flooding of the mine, but in 1854 he conducted an improved experiment at the Harton coal mine, using seconds pendulums swinging on agate plates, timed by precision chronometers synchronized by an electrical circuit. Source: Internet