Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MIDDRIDGE

MIDDRIDGE, a township in Auckland-St. Andrew parish, Durham; 4 miles SE of Bishop-Auckland. Acres, 1,118. Real property, £1,723; of which £20 are in quarries. Pop., 313. Houses, 68. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Auckland St Andrew CP/AP       County Durham AncC
Place: Middridge

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