MIDDLETON (STONEY), a chapelry in the parish
of HATHERSAGE, hundred of HIGH-PEAK, county of
DERBY, 5 miles (N. by E.) from Bakewell, containing 635
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of Hathersage, in the archdeaconry of
Derby, and diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, £800 royal bounty, ana
£ 1000 parliamentary grant. The chapel, dedicated to
St. Martin, was rebuilt in 1759, in the form of an octagon.
There is a place of worship for Unitarians. A
considerable quantity of limestone is burned here, and
used for manure. This parish is in the honour of Tutbury,
duchy of Lancaster, and within the jurisdiction
of a court of pleas held at Chapel en le Frith every
third Tuesday, for the recovery of debts under 40s.