MIDDLETON, a chapelry, joint with Smerrill, in
that part of the parish of YOULGRAVE which is in the
hundred of WIRKSWORTH, county of DERBY, 3 miles
(S. S. W.) from Bakewell, containing, with Smerrill, 287
inhabitants. There are places of worship for Independents
and Wesleyan Methodists. Extensive lead mines
are now in operation near the village, which is situated
on a hill abounding in limestone. Middleton is in the
honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the
jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tutbury every
third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40a.