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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Middridge like this:
MIDDRIDGE, a township in Auckland-St. Andrew parish, Durham; 4 miles SE of Bishop-Auckland. Acres, 1,118. Real property, £1,723; of which £20 are in quarries. Pop., 313. Houses, 68. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a national school.
Middridge is now part of COUNTY DURHAM Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how COUNTY DURHAM has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Middridge itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Middridge in County Durham | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5906
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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