MIDDLETON (ST-GEORGE), a parish in the
south-western division of STOCKTON ward, county palatine
of DURHAM, 65 miles (E. S. E.) from Darlington
containing 209 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry and diocese of Durham, rated in the
king's books at £4, and in the patronage of the Heirs
of the late W. Pemberton, Esq. The foundations of
Pountney's bridge, thought to have been the first bridge
built across the Tees, are still visible; on or near it
stood an ancient chapel; within a short distance of it
there was a hermitage, and on the brow of the hill
immediately above it is an artificial mound, encompassed
by a fosse.