MIDDLETON-by-WIRKSWORTH, a hamlet in that part of the parish of WIRKSWORTH which is in the hundred of WIRKSWORTH, county of DERBY, ,1 mile (N.N.W.) from Wirksworth, containing 904 inhabitants. It is in the honour of Tutbury, duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction of a court of pleas held at Tut- bury every third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.