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Cheriton is an incorporated town in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore, named after Cheriton in Kent, England.

Cheriton began as a railroad town: the New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad was extended from Maryland to Cape Charles in 1884, and Dr. William Stratton Stoakley laid out the western part of his land as a town in 1886.

The new town merged with the neighboring community of Sunnyside and prospered in the early 1900s as an agricultural shipping point and service center for Eastern Shore farms.

Cheriton was incorporated in 1951, decades after the railroad first created it.

The 2020 census counted 486 people in Cheriton, down from a mid-century peak of 761 residents in 1960.

The town covers about 1.0 square mile along U.S. Route 13, and Business Route 13 runs through town as its Main Street.

Just outside town, Eyre Hall, an 18th-century Eastern Shore plantation house, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 and designated a National Historic Landmark on March 2, 2012.

The Cheriton area's recorded history reaches back to 1608, when Captain John Smith explored and landed near Cherrystone during his Chesapeake voyages.