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Places


England

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Orton, Peterborough Orton is a suburb of the City of Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, England, about south west of Peterborough city centre to the south of the River Nene. It is located on the route of the A1 road (Great Britain), A1. It expanded from the villa ...
, Cambridgeshire *
Orton, Cumberland Orton is a civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. The parish includes the settlements of Baldwinholme, Great Orton, Little Orton, Cumbria, Little Orton, Orton Rigg ...
, Cumbria, a civil parish near Carlisle *
Orton, Westmorland and Furness Orton is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. It lies south of Penrith, from Appleby-in-Westmorland and from the M6 motorway. The village is in the upper Lune Vall ...
, Cumbria, a village and civil parish near Tebay * Orton, Northamptonshire, a village and civil parish * Orton, Staffordshire, a hamlet


Elsewhere

* Orton Cave, Ardery Island, Antarctica * Orton Island, Queensland, Australia * Orton, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet * Orton, Ontario, Canada, a small community * Orton, Moray, Scotland, a hamlet, OS grid ref NJ3152 * Orton, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community *
Orton Park Orton Park is a public park located at 1100 Spaight Street in Madison, Wisconsin. History The land was designated as a public cemetery in 1846, the same year Madison was chartered as a village. Madison quickly outgrew the cemetery, and by the 185 ...
, Madison, Wisconsin, United States, a park on the National Register of Historic Places


People

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Orton (surname) Orton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur Orton (1834–1898), English man identified as the "Tichborne Claimant" * Azariah Giles Orton (1789–1864), American Presbyterian theologian *Beth Orton (born 1970), English sing ...
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Orton Chirwa Orton Chirwa (30 January 1919 – 20 October 1992) was a lawyer and political leader in colonial Nyasaland and after independence became Malawi's Ministry of Justice (Malawi), Minister of Justice and Attorney General. After a dispute with Malaw ...
(1919–1992), Malawian lawyer and politician, Malawi's Minister of Justice and Attorney General *
Orton Grain Orton Irwin Grain (August 9, 1863 – February 2, 1930) was a Canadian physician and politician in Manitoba. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1899 to 1903, and again from 1907 to 1913. Grain was born in Fergus, Canada We ...
(1863—1930), Canadian physician and politician *
Randy Orton Randal Keith Orton (born April 1, 1980) is an American Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He has been signed to WWE since 2000, where he performs on the SmackDown (WWE brand), SmackDown brand. Orton is widely regarded as one of t ...
, professional wrestler (nicknamed Orton)


Other uses

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Orton (photography) Orton imagery, also called an Orton slide sandwich or the Orton Effect, is a photography technique which blends two different photos of the same scene, resulting in a distinctive mix of high and low detail areas within the same photo. It was origin ...
, a photography technique *
Orton Ceramic Foundation The roots of the Orton Ceramic Foundation date back to the establishment of the "Standard Pyrometric Cone Company" in 1896 by Edward J. Orton, Jr. In 1894, he was appointed the first Chairman of the Ceramic Engineering Department at Ohio State Uni ...


See also

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Great Orton Great Orton is a village in the civil parish of Orton, in the Cumberland district of the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 453. Historically, the village is part of Cumber ...
, Cumbria (near Carlisle) *
Little Orton, Cumbria Little Orton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Orton, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England. Little Orton is due west of the city of Carlisle Carlisle ( , ; from ) is a city in the Cumberland distri ...
(near Carlisle) *
Orton on the Hill Orton on the Hill is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Twycross, in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. Orton adjoins Morebarne, Sheepy and Newhouse Grange on the south, Appleby and Austrey to ...
, Leicestershire, England, a village *
Orton Plantation The Orton Plantation is a historic Plantation house in the Southern United States, plantation house in Smithville Township, Brunswick County, North Carolina, Smithville Township in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Located beside ...
, a plantation house on the US National Register of Historic Places *
Water Orton Water Orton is a village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire borough of Warwickshire in the West Midlands, England near the River Tame. It is located between Castle Bromwich and Coleshill, and borders the West Midlands metropolitan c ...
, Warwickshire * Oreton (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo