Middleton St George
village in the borough of Darlington, County Durham, England, United Kingdom
Middleton St George is a large village and civil parish in the borough of Darlington and the ceremonial county of County Durham, in the north east of England. It is situated approximately 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of Darlington.
Demographics
According to the 2011 UK Census the population was 3,779, including Middleton One Row, Low Middleton and Oak Tree. It has grown rapidly since the mid-1990s, becoming a commuter area for Darlington. The population of the Darlington ward in question again taken at the 2011 Census was 4,650. The total population of Darlington was 112,489 in 2024.
History
In 1870-72 John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Middleton St. George.
Governance
Since the 2023 review of Westminster constituencies, Middleton St George has been within the Stockton West parliamentary constituency. The current Member of Parliament is Matt Vickers.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Middleton St George” as village in the borough of Darlington, County Durham, England, United Kingdom. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in the borough of Darlington, County Durham, England, United Kingdom. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6842044. VIAF identifies the subject as 145529917. The Library of Congress control number is n88238062. Authority coordinates are 54.512, -1.468. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 2024, 1870 and 2023.
Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Middleton St George” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.