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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Middletown like this:
MIDDLETOWN, a township in Alberbury parish, Montgomery; on the Shrewsbury and Welshpool railway, under Breidden Hill, adjacent to Salop, 5½ miles NE of Welshpool. It has a station on the railway. Acres, 736. Pop. in 1851,102; in 1861,216. Houses, 37.
Middletown is now part of SHROPSHIRE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SHROPSHIRE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Middletown itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Middletown, in Shropshire and Montgomeryshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/6811
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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