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Middlestown

Village in West Yorkshire, England

Field	Value
official_name	Middlestown
country	England
region	Yorkshire and the Humber
static_image_name	Toll house, Middlestown, Sitlington - geograph.org.uk - 792416.jpg
static_image_caption	Disused railway viaduct and former toll house on New Road, A642 road
coordinates
post_town	Wakefield
postcode_area	WF
postcode_district	WF4
dial_code	01924
constituency_westminster	Ossett and Denby Dale
metropolitan_borough	City of Wakefield
metropolitan_county	West Yorkshire

Middlestown is a small village in the Wakefield District in West Yorkshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Sitlington and located halfway between the city of Wakefield and the town of Huddersfield, and is 3 mi south east of Dewsbury.

History

The villages of Middlestown, Netherton, Overton and Midgley are built around and overlook the Coxley Valley. Whilst the village is not recorded in the Domesday Book, the place-name is recorded as far back as 1322 as Middles(c)hitelington. This was originally Middle Shitlington, the Middle part of that parish,which was renamed to Sitlington in 1929, to avoid the rude inference of the word Shit.

The Middlestown built-up area contains two Nature Reserves, managed by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, and is also home to the National Coal Mining Museum for England in neighbouring Overton. The population of the built-up area at the 2011 census was 2,366.

The M1 motorway is within 5 mi from the village. The A642 road between Huddersfield and Wakefield passes through the village, it was built in the 1830s as a turnpike.

References

Sources

References

"Middlestown West Riding".
"Middlestown :: Survey of English Place-Names".
(1960). "The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names". Oxford University Press.
"Shitlington :: Survey of English Place-Names".
"Stoneycliffe Wood {{!}} YWT".
"Stocksmoor Common {{!}} YWT".
"Middlestown Built-up area sub division".
"How To Find Us {{!}} National Coal Mining Museum for England".
"Middlestown, Wakefield - area information, map, walks and more".

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