Middleton (Ilkley), West Riding of Yorkshire
Historical Description
Middleton, a township in Ilkley parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Wharfe, 5½ miles NW by W of Otley, and 1½ mile from Ilkley station on the Otley and Ilkley Joint railway. Post town, Otley; money order and telegraph office, Ilkley. Acreage, 2658; population, 144. Middleton Lodge is the ancient seat of the Middleton family, and has attached to it a Roman Catholic chapel. Middleton Moor forms a large portion of the township, and extends beyond it.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Yorkshire | |
Civil parish | Ilkley | |
Riding | West | |
Wapentake | Claro |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Middleton (Ilkley) from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Middleton, with Stockhill)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Middleton (Ilkley) are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online: