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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Middleton Junction like this:
MIDDLETON-JUNCTION, a railway station in Lancashire; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire railway, at the junction of the short branch to Middleton, 5½ miles NNE of Manchester.
Middleton Junction is now part of OLDHAM District. Click here for graphs and data of how OLDHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Middleton Junction itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Middleton Junction, in Oldham and Lancashire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24525
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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