Description
Middleton, a place in Stranton parish, Durham, 1 mile from West Hartlepool, of which it now forms a part. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under West Hartlepool. There are extensive ironworks, a shipbuilding yard, and other branches of shipbuilding are carried on. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel. See WEST HARTLEPOOL.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
