Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MIDDLETON-ST.GEORGE, or Middleton-One Row

MIDDLETON-ST.GEORGE, or Middleton-One Row, a village and a parish in Darlington district, Durham. The village stands on the river Tees, at the boundary with Yorkshire, near Dinsdale spa, 1 mile S of the Darlington and Stockton railway, and 4½ ESE of Darlington; consists of a row of well built houses, extending over a line of nearly ½ a mile, together with two good hotels; was erected chiefly for the accommodation of visitors to Dinsdale spa; bears properly the name of Middleton-One-Row, while the parish properly bears that of Middleton-St. George; has a post office, of its own proper name, under Darlington; and communicates by omnibus with the r. station of Middleton and Dinsdale. The parish contains also the hamlet of Oak-Tree, and some houses recently erected by the Middleton Iron Company. Acres, 2,050. Real property, £2,999. Pop., 294. Houses, 68. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to H. A. W. Cox, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Durham. Valne, £100. Patron, H. A. W. Cox, Esq. The church stands near the village, is small and plain, and consists of nave and chancel. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a slightly endowed school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Middleton St George AP/CP       Darlington RegD/PLU       County Durham AncC
Place names: MIDDLETON ONE ROW     |     MIDDLETON ST GEORGE     |     MIDDLETON ST GEORGE OR MIDDLETON ONE ROW
Place: Middleton St George

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