Middleton St George
Parish in the County of Durham
Etymology
The parish contains a single township. The land is chiefly an undulating tableland between 100ˈ and 140ˈ above sea level sloping steeply to the river Tees except in the south-east corner where there is some low-lying land. In 1850, the principal industry was agriculture and in 1905 there were 986½ acres of arable, 1,181½ acres under grass and 23 acres of plantation. The soil is clay and the chief crops were wheat, barley, oats, beans and turnips, VCH III 293–4.
Major Settlements
Other places in this Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Almora Hall
- Castle Hill
- Chapel St. Church Ho
- Church Whin Fox Covert
- Countess Wath
- Dinsdale Station
- Felix Ho
- Fighting Cocks P.H.
- Foster Ho
- The Friary
- Goosepool Beck
- High Goosepool, Low Goosepool
- Green Bushes
- Havelock Arms hotel
- Highfield Fm
- High Scrogs
- Inverary Ho
- Killinghall
- Lea Cl
- Long Plantn
- Low Middleton Fm
- W Middleton Fm, E Middleton Fm
- Middleton Hall
- Middleton Iron Wks
- Middleton Lane
- North lodge
- Oakland Fm
- Oak Tree
- Oaktree Fm
- Pountey's Lane
- The Red Ho
- Riverside
- Robinson's Plantn
- Ropner Convalescent Home
- Station Road
- Sunnybanks
- Tower Hill
- The Villas
- Violet Villas
- White Ho