Description
Middridge, a village and a township in Auckland St Andrew parish, Durham, 4 miles SE of Bishop Auckland; and 1 1/2 mile from Shildon station on the N.E.R. There is a post office under Heighington (R.S.O.); money order and telegraph office, Shildon. Acreage of township, 1132 ; population, 874. It has a parish council consisting of seven members, and sends one member to the district council. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
