In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Middleton like this:
MIDDLETON, a township and a parish in Pickering district, N. R. Yorkshire. The township lies adjacent to the Whitby railway, 1¼ mile NW of Pickering. Acres, 1,310. Real property, £1,409. Pop., 283. Houses, 59. The parish contains also the townships of Aislaby, Wrelton,.Cawthorne, Hartoft. ...
Cropton, and Rosedale East-Side, and the chapelry of Lockton. Post town, Pickering, under York. Acres, 25,450. Real property, £10,535; of which £100 are in mines, and £4 in quarries. Pop. in 1851,1,942; in 1861,2,100. Houses, 430. The property is subdivided. The manor belongs to T. Mitchelton, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of York. Value, £100. * Patrons, the Rev. A. Cayley and T. Smith, Esq. The church is ancient but good, and has a tower. There are chapels of ease at Cropton and Lockton, chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a parochial school, and charities £52.
Middleton through time
Middleton is now part of Ryedale district. Click here for graphs and data of how Ryedale has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Middleton itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Middleton, in Ryedale and North Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13707
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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