Descriptive gazetteer entries

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,...

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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.

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