MIDDLETON, a parish in the hundred of HINCKFORD,
county of ESSEX, 1 mile (S. by W.) from Sudbury,
containing 109 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of Essex
and Herts, concurrently with the Consistorial Court or
the Bishop of London, rated in the king's books at
£8, and in the patronage of the Rev. Oliver Raymond,
The church has some remains of Norman architecture.
The parish is bounded on the east by the river Stour.