Parish Notes Durham
Middleton St George St George
[Population 1911: 1,511]
Parish Notes Durham
[Population 1911: 1,511]
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The Parish Church, dedicated to St. George, is situated on elevated ground, to the south-east of the village of Middleton-one-Row; and is a small plain structure, consisting of a nave and chancel. It will accomodate 150 persons. William Killinghall, in 1521, by will, charged his estates "for the sustentacion of an honest preste, which I will shall syng for the sowles of me, myn ancestors and heires in the pariche churche of Midilton George by the space of seven yeres next after my death, receyving yearly for his salary vij markes." The parish register commences in 1650. The living is a discharged rectory, in the deanery of Stockton, valued in the Liber Regis at £3 13s. 1½d.; gross income £100. Patron, Henry A.W. Cocks, Esq.; rector, Rev. Henry Greaves. At present the patron has a moiety of the great tithes and the incumbent the remainder. [Whellan's History, Topography and Directory of Durham (and Newcastle) (1856), pages 553-54.]
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Newcastle Courant 24/11/1848 On Mr Rickatson, a noted and respectable farmer, leaving the parish of Middleton St George, near Darlington, his friends treated him with a farewell supper, provided by Mr and Mrs Hunter, on Thursday evening last, at the Queen's Head Inn.
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