MIDDLETON-CHENEY, a parish in the hundred
of KING'S-SUTTON, county of NORTHAMPTON, 3 miles
(E. by N.) from Banbury, containing 1398 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Northampton,
and diocese of Peterborough, rated in the king's
books at £31. 11. 3., and in the patronage of the Principal
and Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford. The
church, dedicated to All Saints, has a fine tower and
spire, and a rich porch. There are places of worship for
Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. The tenure prevailing
in this lordship is that, when estates descend in
the female line, the eldest sister inherits. In the great
civil war a battle was fought here, in which the army
of the parliament was defeated.